2022-10-09

The substance of paper alone has the potential to supplement an idea or contribute to the concept or meaning of a work of art rather than abiding as a quiescent substrate for one's writing or images. Papermaking is an alchemical process through which materials relinquish their original states of being to be transmuted into sheets of handmade paper. It is only when paper exists in this ostensibly fixed state that its maker is presented with a choice to either maintain or neglect that which tethers it-whether physical or figurative-to the past and its intransigent, material integrity.