handmade paper sculpture

This series, started in 2022, is rooted in place and often focuses on the ongoing crises of habitat destruction. Each piece depicts a personal experience related to a location. The work often compares the living natural environment with one bulldozed by relentless development. This is a body of non-representational constructions of stainless steel and cast paper. They are fragments of recollections, memories of emotions related to locations and events in my past.

**Creature** (2022)
27” x 6” x 6” handmade paper with embedded plant seeds on stainless steel frame

The work considers particular places and times, sometimes there are specific art pieces that influence the design. It is a terse visual poetry that speaks about love of life and loss of attachment over time. It presents experiences in a format unique to the artist, demonstrating an affinity to cast paper and the process used. Cast paper has a rough, almost primitive look when formed onto a mesh, especially when seeds and flower petals are blended with the fibers. I use this texture to enrich the work and create emotional touch points.
Although each piece has it’s own story, it’s important to remember a work of art is larger than its intent.