As a wet fiber artist, a hand papermaker, I converse intimately with nature in the act of pulling sheets of paper. There is poetry in the making of paper. I process and manipulate plant fibers to create designs, imagery, or sculptural art –working to control the flow of wet fiber, coaxing the final result as I intend it to be. Yet there are surprises, lessons in humility. Fiber has memory of its origins—the way it grew, the inherent quality of its being. I work to understand the properties of fibers by the very act of preparing the materials–beating some for longer periods, drying some with and without restraint, observing and learning how different plant fibers behave. This practice and awareness informs my art making.

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I am interested in how paper communicates. I create artist books, sculptural forms and pulp paintings where paper itself becomes a visual element conveying meaning; where the tactile qualities of the fiber embody strength; and where the visual imagery is pulp generated. It is the versatility of this seemingly fragile pulp medium which astounds as it is pigmented, molded and shaped, poured, sprayed, or stretched. I feel a spiritual attraction to paper itself, for it strikes a delicate balance between strength and fragility, purpose and beauty.