While paper is often a delicate form associated with a thin surface, I am finding ways to present its conceptual depth. In addition to cuttings, I often add fine-line drawings to re-script the story. Since the encounter with text has now become mostly an onscreen experience, I am tunneling into vintage hardbound texts to explore the dubious future of the book itself, trying to imagine what it might be like for books to undergo a kind of adaptation for survival.

My work expresses the idea of the story, fable, or tale, attempting to sort out the past and create new beginnings.  How these stories have affected me and my culture is represented through a combination of book and animal sculptures, drawings and writings. I am artificially reimagining things in a handmade wilderness.