This show is a combination of older and current work. While there is a thread from the work of the past, both in materials and imagery, as reflected in the title, I find myself very out of kilter as I face the present moment and try to imagine the huge disruptions to the future.

Much of my artwork consists of handmade paper sculptures from kozo and abaca fibers. Some have added pigment, many have embedded plant matter, or anything else I get my hands on. Additionally, I also create mixed media collages and installations. Finding beauty in the imperfect, acknowledging moments of change, and engaging with the process of transformation form the basis of my work. My art references nature, whether human or otherwise, and attempts. metaphorically through the layering process and form, to address the broader social and environmental issues. 

In the newer work in this show, I have moved out of altering the work as I pour, embed, paint, structure, and let go- only to come back, then let go again.  Working the way I do with wet pulp, I and it have life of our own-I pour and embed, using nature’s detritus-collections of dead leaves, pods, wood, grasses, etc, then wait for the work to dry some-which can take several days, during which I am looking, then adding or supporting different areas, pouring, painting, watching for where things might bleed and warp, where I might alter whats there or watching the materials” escape’ my impositions and very much take on a life of their own.

Like the lessons I have learned in the natural world and as a life traveler as well, I desire to go with the flow but more-think of the changes as a floe- on the way to I don’t always know but trying to be among the changes constantly taking place —and I am deliberate in wanting the work to reveal:* Thus the insistence on leaving the ”imperfections”: the warped, bent tangled, entangled, imperfectly beautiful, frayed uneven edges, parts torn, smashed, shattered, unable to support themselves, persistent on survival, regrowth, regeneration. But I am in no way, nor do I want to be, a passive traveler.