Paper pulp transforms into an amorphous intelligent life force. Operating with swarm intelligence, it replicates forms in its surroundings while adapting to its environment. With this versatile plant matter, I create sculptures that fuse human and other, industrial and organic. The resulting artworks generate a quiet sense of the uncanny while prompting viewers contemplate mortality. To make my works I cover wire bases in paper pulp recycled from discarded cloth. I use natural and synthetic pigments and repetitive textures to transform my materials into seemingly animate objects. By combining human made and organic elements, I create artworks that fuse floral, animal, and geological characteristics. Tentacles, mounds, and bony outgrowths recall bodies while invented color and dappled surfaces suggest the slow formation of stalagmites/stalactites and underlying botanical presences. Their form, color, and texture exude hybridity and conjure the interconnectivity of all earthly things.
