ABOUT PAPER WORKS

While my beaded works are very slow in the making, I produce 1-2 works/year, my ideas abound more rapidly and I needed to turn to other forms of art making, which would satisfy my curiosity and my ideas.  After returning to working with paper, specifically Kozo or mulberry papers, which previously I used for painting, I began combining weaving and collage techniques with printed digital images of nature. I also applied Korean Joomchi methods to felt, or interlock, the layers of paper together, where the pattern sometimes dissolves or is reinforced in bold contrasting blocks. The Joomchi technique creates a rigid wall relief.   This body of work continues my investigation with patterns. The act of weaving also serves as metaphor as all elements of nature are interwoven and as human beings we are interwoven into every aspect of nature. In the West we have reached a destructive force with the world and nature with far-reaching consequences environmentally, communally and personally.  We view nature as a resource to be utilized, consumed without ever respecting the intelligent design of the 360 million years of forest, creeks, rivers, oceans and prairies.  Our thoughtless consumption brings us to the destruction of whole forests, oceans, prairies and the supportive ecosystems within, including our own lives within this web and the air we breathe.