COMING SOON!

Hand Papermaking: PORTFOLIO 13 - IN BETWEEN 

Including my new work SUNDOG 

I am presenting SUNDOG - my major work made last winter in New Zealand. SUNDOG was inspired by my first sighting of the meteorological phenomenon known as a ‘sundog’ and made using fibres from harakeke (New Zealand flax).

I used the translucence of the tow fiber and the contrasting luster of the muka to create a sense of the shimmering light of a ‘sundog’ as it gleams across the landscape. Sundogs are difficult to capture in a photograph. I have found that the luminosity of the muka has a similar quality to a ‘sundog’ - beautiful and ephemeral.

For now, here is a sneak preview from my Youtube channel. You can see it all when Hand Papermaking releases Portfolio 13 in the northern Summer.

IN BETWEEN Hand Papermaking’s lucky thirteenth themed portfolio of handmade paper was by design meant to inspire broad interpretation. The hope was that the final papers in the portfolio would be thought-provoking and visually compelling art works that formally or conceptually suggested the liminal, the undefined, the unextreme, the marginal, the middling. In the end, our challenge attracted a diverse group of 16 artists from Europe, Japan, New Zealand, and all corners of the United States whose collective 16 paper works, chosen by curator Frida Baranek, are an intriguing record of the creative spirit of these decidedly “in between” times.

Hand Papermaking is offering early purchase of Portfolio 13 prior to release in the US Summer