The Shape of Home

My work in handmade paper and pulp painting emerges from an intimate geography: the house where I grew up, and where I now return each weekend to care for my disabled mother. These works are not literal depictions but abstractions shaped by the fluidity of memory. Familiar rooms now soften at the edges; colors and patterns shift, and scale no longer aligns with my body. Through transforming paper pulp into textured surfaces, I reflect on how personal history is continuously reshaped by time, responsibility, and return.

Hand papermaking becomes a process of deconstruction and reconstruction. Fibers are broken down, dispersed, and reformed, echoing my evolving understanding of home. My pulp paintings hold these contradictions of tenderness and exhaustion, preservation and loss, comfort and disorientation. Through abstraction and scale, I approach what cannot be spoken directly, honoring caregiving as an evolving landscape that transforms both place and self.