My work is created with strips of recycled paper collected from magazines, books and junk mail.
A collection of my larger assemblage sculptures I have made through the years… Each piece begins with a fleeting idea that comes by chance. My mindset is programed to think paper, circular coils and the natural evolution of the product used. Like a puzzle, the composition evolves one piece at a time. I continue to cut, roll and otherwise manipulate possible elements, making decisions about what works and what is needed next to complete the composition, balance, movement, and growth.
Inspired and created to be a part of my environmental installations, my spores are intended to speak to the Global Environmental Movement. These paper sculptures are representative of natures creations and intended to inspire the desire to make changes in our consumerism and waste production. The seeded spores contain miscellaneous salvaged or recycled glass or paper beads, staples, copper pellets, buttons etc… The open spores symbolize just that; the seeds have dispersed and some are caught on the edge of the opening. Both are equally poignant and stunning.
