handmade paper sculpture

This work, started in 2022, depicts personal experiences in a series of non-representational constructions of stainless steel and cast paper. The objects are like fragments of recollections torn from the pool of events and emotions accumulated. The metal armature provides a skeletal structure for the pieces but also has fingers reaching out like synapses attempting to connect to other experiences. These works are best described as manifestations of emotion.

Each artwork is based on a particular place, work of art, or event that has touched the artist’s life and is translated into a construction. It creates a kind of terse visual poetry that speaks of love through creativity. 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 primal look when formed onto a mesh, especially when garden seeds and flower petals are blended with the fibers. The artist uses this texture to enrich the work and make expressive surface details.