Handmade paper (kozo), stone, re-purposed sliding door
Part of the “landscape” series of low relief handmade paper artworks, this panel was shown at the former Echizen Washi Cooperative storehouse-turned-gallery in Echizen, Japan. At this time, I was working a lot with low relief designs in pulp mimicking rock gardens, ripples of water, or islands. The ability to mold and transform the pulp when wet, and then have it solidify and become strong and supple when dry, was a means of recording time, movement, and choreography in the paper. Stones — fragments of deep time — were placed on top, as a contrast of gravity and material.
