Haze, 2025
artist pigmented and torn Abaca/cotton, silk and mesh fabric, H 80", W 128", D 17"
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Cardboard boxes in my studio are filled with years of paper experiments. They challenge me to explore once again paper's remarkable plasticity. In earlier works I transformed pulp into architecture structures, boulders and planets. I now find inspiration from the clouds that pass by my three huge studio windows.
To breathe new life into the old abandoned papers I tore them apart and crushed them. Now three- dimensional, they nestle with old sumo ink and pencil drawings in the floating silk and mesh fabric I pinned to my studio wall.
Like a diary, the work grew each day in scale. It described the haze I have felt with the onslaught of recent world events. It brought to mind the endless passing of time. Just as those clouds I watch from my windows do, expanding and contracting in the constantly shifting currents of air.