SUNDIAL original paper collage

These colorful stacks are displayed from a bird’s-eye view in repetition in ever-larger concentric circles, evoking naturally-occuring mountain ranges, vast lakes, and ravines, alongside human-created farm fields, tiny towns and winding roads.

This sculptural work speaks to the interactions and intersections of civilization and nature, the micro-erosion of found materials superimposed on the macro-erosion of the larger landforms the stacks represent. Human-made materials - magazine pages, scraps of text and images from books, newsprint - break down when acted upon by forces of nature. The materials used here were collected over more than two decades of exploration and scavenging - finding by chance and by design - on curbs, in abandoned buildings, in overstuffed filing cabinets lining a junkyard. Distressed by time, wind, water, salt, sand, and moths, these papers straddle time: what they were in their original form and what they have become.

Each stack contains 20-25 unique pieces of paper, each with a hint to its former use in the tiny details still peeking through.