Paper
Indicators: Water Howellia and Reed Canarygrass
Cut paper, wood, paper porcelain, monitoring tools, 20236’ x 7.5’ x 1’
The Indicators series of work visualizes my conversations and time spent out in the field with friend and Botanist from the Latah Soil and Water Conservation District, Brenda Erhardt, as she monitors Water Howellia, a threatened plant species in Idaho. This piece brings attention to the relationship between Water Howellia and Reed Canarygrass as an indication of larger impacts on our regional landscape over time.
My interest stems from the actual work of tromping through ponds looking for plants, but also the larger metaphors about caring for parts of our world that are seemingly insignificant or fragile, such as a plant most people don’t know the name of or will never see.
In this series, I am guided by the question “why should we care?” This iteration isn’t an answer, but rather my current stage of listening and looking.
You’re Invited
Cut and found paper interactive installation, 20218’ x 5’ x 1’
University of Idaho Prichard Art Gallery, CAA Faculty Exhibit, Moscow, Idaho
Collaboration with David Herbold, Felix Herbold, Finn Herbold.
Make Believe
Cut paper, 200610’ x 5’ x 2’
Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Make Believe was the culminating project in a series of work about childhood imagination. As a young girl, I carried paper ponies in my pockets. Revisiting that habit for this series, I landed on the artform of contemporary and historical cut paper. Make Believe was my first large scale paper installation, and over a decade later I am still fascinated with the possibilities such a simple material holds.
Walk Wander, Farm Acre
Cut paper, 2008Art Farm Residency, Marquette, Nebraska
Here Nor There
Cut Paper, 2010 7’ x 6 ‘ x 1 ‘
Art Prize, Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Large cut paper installation depicting the anatomical heart as an emotional and poetic vessel.
Two-dimensional cut paper
cut paper, thread
20’’ x 20’’
cut paper, thread
20’’ x 20’’
Cut paper
24’’ x 17’’
Cut paper
24’’ x 17’m .
2017
Cut paper, thread
8’’ x 8’’
2017
Cut paper, thread
8’’ x 8’’.
2017
Cut paper, thread
8’’ x 8’’
Cut and painted paper
27’’ x 21’’
Cut and painted paper
27’’ x 21‘’