Here are pictures from the show!! The beasts are steel armatures with flax paper wrapped around the armature. The flax paper is made from raw Type R flax beaten for 8 hrs. I ordered the pulp pre-beaten from Carriage House Paper because the old, giant paper beater's long happy tenure in the University of Virginia's papermaking studio ended this semester. RIP. Happily, we are getting a new, smaller beater this next week. The prints are made from abaca paper, beaten for 2 hrs. I screenprinted the circle/moon forms on the paper and collaged the pieces together. The projected work is a collaboration with Elizabeth; her video work is projected on my paper collage.

Thanks to Mark for taking these installation shots. And thanks to my whole lovely family for helping me assemble and disassemble my show. I couldn't have done it without the team! xo
There are more pictures on my flickr, just click on the images here!

I've been lax about taking in progress photos on my printed work, but I'm busy! Expect some good pictures after our show is up. For now, here is another sneak peek of the show. Prints, y'all!

P.S. thanks to the sweet people at New City Arts Initiative for putting our show up on their rad website. Check out the Forum: it is guaranteed to be inspiring. I believe you can still register during the next week!

I am busy working on my thesis show! These are the beasts sitting pretty in the papermaking studio. I love them so much that I put some carts in between the tables to block people from touching them. It looks like they're toddlers trying to get out of those baby gates.

April 9-13.

I put together a corner of recent/unfinished work for a critique three weeks ago. Hopefully the future beast is more visible in these pictures.
I'm busy planning a collaborative thesis show with my friend, Elizabeth. We chose our show date recently: our work is up April 9-13 and our closing reception is April 13. I'll give more details soon. Preemptively: come one and all!
For a full picture of the prints click on the photos.

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I took a video of myself making paper the other afternoon!
I made about 25 good sheets of abaca paper: I overbeat the abaca for about 8 hours. The old beater in our studio doesn't really do more than saturate the pulp fibers because the blade height can't be adjusted, but the paper still ended up being delicate and translucent. We're getting a new beater at some point this spring. Look out, world!

This past week I worked in the metal studio welding beast armatures! I have been MIG welding 1/8" rod together and angle grinding the joints.
I'm glad to be back in studio before classes start. I've been hanging the beast's torso on a giant hook and strapping on the lower limbs - taking massive amounts of real estate. Next steps: fitting the limbs onto the torso in some detachable way, adding wooden limb-ends (feet), and testing out paper skins.

The first photo is the back leg + torso.