In the spring 2020, while access to printing studios was limited, I began working with cut paper as an exploration of the materials of print, paper, and design. The first papercut works began from the cast shadows of garden lattice and grew into grid formats using pre-printed graph paper. Mindful of the grid in the history of art, the work references architecture, measurements, and the process of design. It also remains connected to the idea of a fence, boundary, and demarcation of space.

In the intaglio prints developed from these papercuts, I consider the nature of enclosing something within space, and the fact that this action also defines an open space outside the enclosure. The diptychs include elements from the natural and built environment that indicate boundaries – concrete edging, the surface of water, building facades. These observed and spatial subjects are paired with less defined spaces that indicate planning and design – the printed page, mis-registered color layers, graphs, grids. With these pairings, I am interested in phenomena at the edge of my vision, and the transitory spaces of moving from inside to outside, from contained to open.