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I talk about my work as a documentation of feeling, emotional responses to an idea. I take in and reflect on earth's patterns, the beat of the music in the studio, or the ripples in the sand at the ocean's edge. When working on the concept for a piece, I work to explore that feeling and claim the essence of the idea. I like the act of making paper, the building of the medium from cellulose and water. As in nature, pulp preparation also has a rhythm and pattern, demonstrated in spiraling clouds of fiber mixing in the beaters. The building process, the making of the pulp, and pushing and cajoling the fibers into place are seductive, and the physical becomes a song, and its rhythm plays an integral part in my work.  I hammer and push pulp to the music's cadence. The sculptural work is part of the song.

 The dense, multilayered sentinel-like forms from the Singular Entity series are cut, folded, and embossed using an artist-made matrix and mallot. Like ancient guardians, they remind us of something from an ancient civilization carved in bas-relief.