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Japanese Rain
False Shelter
False Shelter, detail image
Adrift
Adrift, detail
Lacuna
Outside the Box
Hops Wraith 18″ diameter x 3″
hops vine and artist-made kozo paper
The Conversation pulp painting handbeaten kozo fiber, pigment, wire, wood base
Dance 3 view b hand-hewn bamboo with relief print on handbeaten kozo fiber
Dance 3 view a hand-hewn bamboo with relief print on handbeaten kozo fiber
secret box handbeaten kozofiber with maple leaves, gold and copper foil
Fish Trap handbeaten kozo fiber over wood armature
Plate 54 – Vespa cubile linea 13″ x 20″ x 13″(lat. wasp, nest, of flax)overbeaten flax paper, wood, copper wire. silk and ink -a biological/botanical illustration with elements escaping the 2d format. Text is adsorbed onto the layer of the outer nest. the handwritten treatise on commnity lies at the base of the work
Suspended Friendships 6.25″x6.25″x3″
hand hewn bamboo with artist-made kozo paper, brass wire. Handwritten text on the inner scrolls.
On Broken Wing 14″x13″x13″ in plexi display case manipulated kozo paper with wire substructure and text “my life has crept so long
on broken wing”
Tennyson
Shrinkage II
a “reference book” of different pulps response to dryiing
Cargo Journal detail
Cargo (in progress)
papers of cotton/abaca, kozo and overbeatedn abaca, ink, wood and linen cord
Cargo, Handmade papers, wood, wire, ink including handwritten excerpts from a Slave trader’s log
Haori Jacket – Autumn Spirit 60″x29″x4″ Artist-made gampi paper, miscellaneous ephemera, wood, inen, metalllic threadThia piece is part of a concept for an installation of the four seasons.
Four Seasons Summer, front
overbeaten; abaca/pigment; threads and net
Four Seasons, Summer, front
overbeaten abaca; pigment; threads and net
Four Seasons, Spring
Kozo paper, thread, collage
Four Seasons, Autumn
Tibetan Daphne paper, walnut dye, skeleton leaves
Four Seasons, Winter, back
Indigo Shibori Kozo paper, thread
Four Seasons installation
Denial of Perfection
8″x8″; 16 pulp painted boxes forming an inperfect Zen circle
Denial of Perfection
pulp painted boxes made of overbeaten abaca
Ghost Ships detail (installation)
deconstructed ships in a turbulent sea
Ghost Ships installation
Fuji Musume. gampi and abaca fibers with hand-embroidery
Fuji Musume, front, gampi and abaca fiber with hand-embroidery
Cocoon – Where have all the insects gone!
Catch, climate change and indigenous population quotes