Making paper calls me to work instinctively and with an intention to listen tenderly to the materials and to my internal state of being. Each fiber is interconnected in an abstract representation of a stream of sensations, thoughts, emotions, and memories. Together the coalescence of these pieces is a path for me to engage in an internal and external field of connections. It is an intuitive and experimental process. A practice in listening, patience, and release while I transform uncertainties, fragments, and doubts into trust and wholeness. This exercise in improvisation simultaneously acknowledges and braids together threads of memory from my past and possible futures. Depending on whether a piece’s impetus derives from a person, a place, a feeling, or an idea, the creative process is a search for belonging through non-linear interconnectedness.
