In the absence of a standard canvas, I had to take advantage of the shapes and colours already provided. Paper has a very real and tactile appeal for me, I’m attracted to its fragility and pristine beauty, yet my work involves scarring, folding, and piercing its surface. These processes are simultaneously destructive and constructive; the collision of sight and touch playing with order and disorder. The book works assembled for my pieces explore various facets of de-mediation through two related transformative processes: 1) the alteration of found volumes and 2) the fabrication of new objects that comment upon their own meaning or irrelevance. They are tenderly vandalized back to life so they can assert themselves in contradiction of the culture that turned them into debris
