CUT PAPER INSTALLATION

While looking at Western landscapes via satellite imagery, I noticed a curious pattern: areas of forest that appeared to be carved into checkerboard-like shapes. This was not a computer glitch, but clearcuts, neat squares shaved from the interior forests, geometric harvests only visible from far above. Usually, my work is about what is present, but this work is about what is absent. What better way to communicate absence but to cut away the painting, creating a lace-like grid that eventually disintegrates to nothing, while the stained and painted paper speaks to the lush beauty of the forest.