Working with Red

 I have made red paper, which is unusual for me.

I was compelled to use red because of my alarm about what is going on in our environment. Trees are being destroyed by wildfire and misuse and I don't know what to do about it. So I make art.

"Alarm"

    "Distress"

Cotton

 This is a series about cotton as a crop.  In thinking about cotton here I am thinking of slavery, exploitation, greed and the need to talk about this. The threads are made of spun paper. 

Black Cotton

Red Cotton

Green Cotton

Cotton and Dinner Conversations

Cotton

Trees

These works are made of handmade paper, with bark inclusions from eleagnus, a forest invasive. The work includes spun paper thread. Uncertain Ground Between Steel and Tree includes a steel rebar on the left. 

Uncertain Ground 

Between Steel and Tree

                       Bound Tree

Fire Tree

 

  

Ghost Tree