MY GARDEN
MY GARDEN 2016-18, hand-made paper from garden refuse, 200+ sheets 7" x 7" each of: Woodbine, Tulip, Switchgrass, Sweet Potato, Snow Pea, Silver Grass, Shefflera, Sanseviera, Red Fountain Grass, Quaking Aspen, Prairie Dropseed, Nasturium, Lilac, Liatrus, Hydrangea, Green Bean, Bridal Wreath, Black Locust. For each sheet a single material was harvested, cooked, rendered, pounded, ground, suspended as pulp, screened, couched, pressed and dried. A quantitative portrait, the number of sheets is determined by how much was grown and its response to processing.