My work evolves out of personal needs for art. I like to explore fields off the beaten track. I do best with hands-on learning. I enjoy inviting people to work together in the art-making process. I craft my handmade paper to use as a surface for my multimedia art. It is pulped mostly from weedy plants. Big Stone Lake and the surrounding area provide a generous amount of fiber material from native, invasive, and farm plant species that grow here. This work is experimental and comes out of a mix of plant stuff, science, and history. My enjoyment comes from seeing new potentials for what is often unappreciated, overlooked, or misunderstood.
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I'm inspired by what can be found by the wayside. It's there where I realize my ideas and where raw materials are gathered to bring back to my studio. Then they can be reconstituted through hand-worked media. I use a Hollander beater to make the paper for drawing, painting, and photographic and digital processes. By working this way, I am inspired by deeper understandings of life around me.