| ONCE REMOVED at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| These cast paper vessels represent an evolution from a series of two dimensional paper pieces based on the idea of the mandala as an architecture of the mind linked with actual floor plans (blueprints) from Buddhist stupas (circular temples) and overlayed with the resonance of Flow Blue porcelain, iconic in the cultures of East and West. The paper for these cast paper vessels was made at Dieu Donne papermill where the blue and white liquid paper pulp is pressed together as cast paper. The image IS the paper rather than ON the paper. After the flat wet pieces of paper were made, they were cut and wrapped around solid plaster mold forms. These were then dried, elaborately cut away and “healed”. In the final installation, each paper vessel, physically ephemeral, sits on a solid mold form creating a mirror of itself and a reflection into the process. Overlapping the decorative and the religious, the entire installation of over 100 pairs formed a twelve foot circular field inside a larger square gallery. Viewers were invited to circumambulate the circle in order to view the pieces. |
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