I use the accessible, universally recognized material of cheap paer to convey complex and minuscule biological processes. This most recent work, Kytokinisis Fluctuations, showcases cell development. At any given moment millions of cells in your body are dividing and multiplying in order to replenish and maintain your skin, hair, intestine and bodily organs, and so on. Kytokinisis is the final and most dramatic stage of mitosis when the cell wall ruptures and splits in two to form identical daughter cells. I have tried to freeze the ultimate moment of transformation and becoming.

I have carefully arranged in layers of various materials over the canvas of paper to convey the dramatic energy of mitosis. The result embodies the paradoxical qualities that we see in nature: its fragility and durability, its strength and delicacy. There is a pleasing poetic symmetry in taking this material that was cut from the forest and by cutting and transforming it once again returning it to its origins.