" I Have a Time Machine" interactive still, with shadow detail
"I Have a Time Machine" handmade cotton x abaca paper, 6x 8' (wide, outstretched), 2023.
"I Have a Time Machine" is an interactive paper sculpture reimagining this idea of remembering, specifically the experience of nostalgia.
When touched, it's shape changes, as do the shadows it casts. This represents my perception of memories themselves -- the significant difference between a memory and the past. That the memory is the effect, a shapeshifting product, ever-changing for the rememberer, while the past no longer exists.
When nostalgia is induced, I find the layers of memory to become quite confusing, as emotions blur their clarity. Nostalgia, for me, is tied to desire for the past. With this piece, I have taken segments of past diaries of mine, and text threads of past conversations, and created paper lettering using a blowout technique with a hose. Next, I performed wet-on-wet paper couching to create my fragments, which I then assembled through adhesion after dry using methyl cellulose.
It is installed onto the wall dangling from a nail at the top.
detail, paying attention to the shadows casted
Time Machine, outstretched, pre-install.
process, Time Machine during an assembly stage.
detail, Time Machine and its casted shadows
"Ghost World," 2 large sheets of handmade cotton x abaca paper containing an embedded charcoal drawing and handmade paper writing top layer addition (through wet-on-wet couching methods), 4' x 8', 2023.
"Ghost World" detail 1
"Ghost World" detail 2, with humans for scale.
process, ghost world drying on board, wet-on-wet fusion technique
gallery installation preview, 2023
Palimpsests, handmade cotton x abaca paper with charcoal illustration embedded, 2' x 3', 2022. backlit.
palimpsests details
palimpsests without backlight
palimpsest without backlight
"Remembering: Lilly," handmade rag paper, cotton linter and rag pulp blend, techniques include 25x tiled 8.5x6" press and blow out/stencil designed, 3.5' x 2.5', 1/3, 2022.
"Remembering Omar," handmade rag paper, cotton linter and rag pulp blend, techniques include 25x tiled 8.5x6" press and blow out/stencil designed, 3.5' x 2.5', 1/3, 2022.
"Remembering Mariposa," handmade rag paper, cotton linter and rag pulp blend, techniques include 25x tiled 8.5x6" press and blow out/stencil designed, 3.5' x 2.5', 1/3, 2022.
"I Think I'm Gonna Eat Them," photograph printed on cotton paper, embedded into handmade paper, cotton and abaca 50/50 fiber blend, 18" x 12," March 2023. Stenciling, blow-out, and embedding techniques used.
a process document of "I Think I'm Gonna Eat Them" Stencil (wet paper pulp on screen, pre-couch).
"Flight Mode," graphite drawing embedded into handmade cotton paper. 8"x6," February 2023.
"Flight Mode" 1/3.
"Flight Mode" 2/3.
"Flight Mode" 3/3.
"I Didn't Come Up With These Words On My Own," handmade paper, 50/50 blend of cotton and abaca fibers, formed using a hand-cut stencil and water blow-out techniques. 1 of an edition of 16. 8"x6" February 2023.
edition variation example
edition variation example
"I Didn't Come Up With These Words On My Own" edition photographed against a light box in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
edition details
Words on my own, loose pages
Words on my own, assembled
