Arrangements
After completing a work, I photograph and rearrange the piles of paper it generates; the tiniest pieces get discarded, and the rest are sorted and filed. These reshaped and recombined sheets became the foundation for the Arrangements series. I suspect many artists look at the discarded materials in their studio and compare them to the finished work. The earliest pieces in the series were treated as still lifes, which began to feel too literal, so I started reworking the compositions through drawings and letting them grow more abstract. Read more »
All works on listed are inlaid cut paper. The archival cut papers are usually tinted with acrylic and/or flashe vinyl to expand the stock papers’ limited palette. The paper pieces are scalpel cut, inlaid (forming one layer) and adhered using reversible PVA glue. An isolation coat is applied before the final protective matte UV varnish.
Selected Works
Photos
As with any subject, I need a lot of help from reference photos. Here's four from yet (or never) to be made works.
