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Over the past several years my practice has shifted from one focused on producing objects that live on a wall to a cycle of making that engages time and place. Using recycled fabrics, harvested plant materials and waste papers I make a variety of handmade papers to use as integrated surfaces for drawings. Drawing for me is a way of moving through the world and communicating through image.
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In my current body of work I am creating site specific drawings on handmade paper that are primarily meant for private outdoor exhibition and engagement. These pieces reflect on climate change and human relationships to environment. Some of the questions I am asking myself are -

If process and community are important to my art practice, how do I make work that emphasizes these connections and lifts them up?
How can art live outside of the gallery or museum world? What animals and insects make up my greater community?
How can I be a more thoughtful and caring observer via my art practice?
What is my connection to time through my art practice?
How can I make work in which time, wind, rain, sun are collaborators?
How do I transform my relationship to making?
How do I let go of known cycles of control, access and commodification and move towards collaboration and shared power?

Ultimately I imagine that this series will be shared to an expanded audience via videos, photographs, and potentially a publication. While the process and dialogues unfold with participants I will continue to harvest and work with plants for paper fiber and dyes that I have not previously engaged with.

To view more of my work and learn about the Fruits of the Sun images shared in the gallery, please visit my website at http://jjwoodward.weebly.com