Char and Cellulose
In these works I engage the materiality of medium and substrate. I treat the sheet as an architectural object, using it to construct both occupied and open space. Waterborne pigments find their own tributary paths and run down the page, resolving as distant trunks; liquid wax permeates and hardens a watercolor, fixing previously mobile pigments and allowing light to pass through the paper. Creases, tears, and erasures remain as time-marks in a call-and-response between subject (forest), medium (charcoal, graphite, waterborne pigments), and substrate (paper as physical body). Materially, the forests are rebuilt from their derivatives: cellulose fiber (paper) and carbon media (charcoal from wood, graphite/carbon)—a forest recomposed from its own matter.
