The paper sculptures are a departure from prior work.

There are similarities between the physical Paper Sculptures and the digital Tailings images, in that The Tailings are all about what is “left over”. The Paper Sculptures are about what is “left over”, but in a different way: previous artwork is recycled along with material from businesses who contribute to this series rather than bringing their excess to the transfer station. In a sense, the various businesses are collaborators in this project, and collaborators in dealing creatively with what they used to think of as waste.

There is a symbiosis between the paper sculptures and the Transfer Station Series of photographs. These two series weave together in a unique and disorienting way; disorienting because of the abstract nature of one, and documentary nature of the other: how could they possibly “live” in such close proximity, and yet they do.

The Paper Sculptures are physical works of art, to be viewed leaning against a wall within a gallery space.

Given that the plexiglass shape on top of which the recycled paper and metallic film are placed is determined by what needs to be discarded by the aluminum and glass business, it could be said that a large part of making these works has to do with accommodation and adjustment: the work bends itself, even subjugates itself, to the needs of that which has been rejected.