PAPER MAKING

When I decided to study printmaking, I also discovered the wonders of making my own art paper.
Below are a few examples of pushing the ingredients of paper making to boundaries which again would incorporate the found object. It occurred to me that making ones own paper is a bit like alchemy. I discovered the wild paper making wasps nests from our meadow and the recycling of one months personal garbage, as material for paper making. Grass clippings, marsh plant fibers, seeds and down from the milk weed and even the feathers from our farm animals were made into paper. The found object made its way into the paper pulp bath and as the screen was lifted through the slurry, swayed back and forth, thus locking into the wet fibers of the paper...an object of art.



Title: "COKE CANS"
Medium: Found Objects embedded into Paper
Size: 20.5" x 15"
Date: 1990



Title: "BEER CAN"
Medium: Found Objects embedded into Paper
Size: 20" X 15"
Date: 1990



Title: The Polluted Innosense"
Medium: Embedded Mummified Goldfish into Paper
Size: 14" X 12"
Date: 1990



Title: "Hand Made Paper with Wasps Nests and Dried Dogfish Skin"
Medium: Found Object Embedded into Paper
Size: 22" X 14"
Date: 1990



Title: "6 Geese at the Beach"
Medium: Hand Made Paper with Ground up Garbage and Acrylic Painted Image.
Size: 28" X 21"
Date: 1990