January 2025

Paper pulp is magic. So much preparation goes into a moment where you have to work very quickly: an image is created in the time allowed by water’s movement as it drains through fiber, captured on a mould. This body of work is made entirely from abaca fiber — some infused with indigo dye, some flecked with mica — with occasional elements of cotton pulp pigmented with red iron oxide and ochre. No adhesives were used. Many pieces were cut apart, reassembled, and embedded into new, wet sheets.

I am obsessed with the translucency, lightness, and dimension that abaca fiber allows. The process became a collaboration over time as I set the conditions that allow the material to shrink, ripple, distort, and ruffle as it dries. I wanted to create a material both strong as leather and gentle as a cloud. In making these pieces, I was surprised by the sensation that I was building a window on the surface of a pond and followed that impulse.