Paper Moon Series - 2019 to Present
This series explores the moon. What the moon means to me and all the different names the moon has been called throughout the course of history. This series has been ongoing for a couple years. Partially because the moon continues to fascinate me and catch my eye.
Does the Moon Think of Me?
Spring 2021
Does the Moon Think of Me? is a woven paper collage, from the series of the same name, made from found paper materials that include handmade, eclectic graph paper; hot/cold press paper; rice paper; vintage magazines/memorabilia; and tracing paper. No additional materials, adhesives, or fixatives were used to hold Paper Moon together. I discovered a stack of old post cards from the early 1900's while going through old family photos and papers. One postcard in particular requested that the recipient "Please think of me..." Later that night I was faced with the full moon dominating the night sky and began to wonder if the moon could, would it think of me the way I contemplate it. With this thought I was compelled to combine the postcard with a mostly white paper weaving while outlining the line in the postcard. Once again the interpretation of the moon is fractured and angular with the folds and crossing of the paper. Taking found paper, cutting them to strips, and then recombining them into something new in the weaving; just like finding old thoughts in cards and pictures only to be recombined into new thoughts we create around them.
Paper Moon
Spring 2019
Paper Moon is a woven paper collage made from found paper materials that include handmade, eclectic graph paper; watercolour paper; rice paper; vintage magazines; and tracing paper. No additional materials, adhesives, or fixatives were used to hold Paper Moon together. While weaving, I thought of the moon—a paper moon—all whites and greys and blues. However, this Paper Moon does not interpret the moon as a spherical orb in the sky; rather, it becomes a fractured and angular representation of how I see it. Additionally, Paper Moon connects musically to the popular, 1933-composed song “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” which gained lasting fame during World War II when it was recorded by popular artists such as Ella Fitzgerald. “It’s only a paper moon, sailing over a cardboard sea...it’s only a canvas sky, hanging over a muslin tree.” Like that song, my Paper Moon is fragile and temporal.
Colours - A Love Letter to Ken Nordine - 2019 to Present
I am thinking of Ken Nordine’s album Colors, a spoken word jazz album that came out in 1966. This hour long love letter to colours has been a longtime favorite. Following his list of colours and adding a few of my own.
Mustard Heart
Spring 2019
Mustard Heart is a paper collage that is woven entirely from found paper materials—including handmade, watercolour, tracing, and vintage magazine trimmings—and with no additional materials, adhesives, or fixatives used to hold it together. The colours—mustard, ochre, and turmeric—settle comfortably around additional trimmed found paper materials. This collage takes something round, soft, and pliable—like a heart—and interprets it as angles and geometric ideas. It also leans into “The Mustard Procedure,” which was a medical procedure developed in 1963 to correct congenital heart defects that resulted in “blue babies.” Now largely replaced by a procedure known as arterial switching, The Mustard Procedure pumped blood to the lungs via the left (rather than the right) ventricle. Mustard Heart interprets the complexities of the human heart.
