ingrid research into her work

Here i have coped and pasted any information i have found out about ingrid  I wanted to learn how she does her work and were she gets her inspiration. I will highlight any work/paragraphs that i have wrote my self.

Since the early 90s, Ingrid Calame has been working with tracing. Her practice involves going to specific locations to trace marks, stains and cracks on the ground on to architectural polyester-based tracing film. From these tracings she make drawings and paintings. The original tracings are layered on top of each other and the resulting image is retraced in a different coloured pencil for each layer. Each sheet is peeled back one by one until Calame reaches the bottom of the pile. The final drawings are always a surprise.

When i tried this i did it a little differently as i wanted to make it my own and didn't want   
to copy i layered but only traced the last layer were as ingrid kept taking the layers away i wanted to see what would happened if you didn't if you layered but traced all the lines from all the layers as if it was one print.

Since the early 90s, I have been working with tracing. I go to specific locations to trace marks, stains and cracks on the ground on to architectural Mylar [polyester-based tracing film]. From these tracings I make drawings and paintings. I clean the original tracings and layer them on top of each other. Once I've piled up the tracings, I place several rectangles of drafting Mylar on top of them. This determines the size of the drawings I will eventually make. I then start to trace the layers of rubbings that are beneath the rectangles, with a different colour pencil for each layer, peeling back the layers one by one until I reach the bottom of the pile. The final drawings are always a surprise.

I was recently invited to do a residency at the Albright-Knox art gallery in Buffalo, New York. I traced for three weeks with nine assistants, for five days a week. We took tracings from a storage hall at the Arcelor Mittal steel plant, from a wading pool, a parking lot ... This working process is important - going out into the world.

My journey through tracing different sites, working with and meeting people and seeing their reactions to the work - all this has changed my understanding of representation and abstraction.

• Ingrid Calame was born in 1965 in the Bronx, New York.

She is an inspiration to me i didn't think anyone else had had a similar idea to mine it also helps me understand that i need to try and make my mark making different to hers as we all need to mark out mark and create something new.