Paper Sculpture
My paper sculptures push paper beyond the flat surface and into three dimensions. Using fibers, pulp, papier-mâché, cardboard, and found materials, I build, shape, layer, and manipulate paper into sculptural forms. I am drawn to the contrast between paper’s perceived fragility and the strength it can develop through process.
Soft Control, Pulp Sculpture Collection 18 × 36 × 1.5 inches $1570.00Pulp Sculpture Series
I build my paper sculptures with abaca and flax pulp, rattan, and careful planning. As the pulp dries, it shrinks and tears, pulling against the rattan and creating movement and depth. Each finished sculpture is mounted on a cavas covered with handmade paper, bringing its texture and three-dimensional form into focus. This series is my latest exploration in paper.
Handformed from flax pulp, this sculptural paper piece explores texture, memory, and quiet transformation. Layered organic forms rise from a richly textured surface, revealing the raw beauty and strength hidden within natural fibers. The work balances softness with structure, inviting viewers to slow down and notice the subtle marks, edges, and imperfections that give handmade paper its soul.
This sculpture is part of my ongoing exploration of what paper can become. I dyed the paper with natural earth pigments and added grass clippings while making it to give the surface its textured, organic character. The raised blue form brings depth and movement to the piece. As a final touch, I hand-stitched red embroidery thread across its surface, adding a line of color that invites a closer look.
Paper Relic No 1 explores the tension between fragility and permanence through layered handmade paper and sculptural form. Created from flax pulp and mounted on a surface of collaged recycled handmade papers, the piece feels both excavated and preserved — like an artifact carrying traces of memory, ritual, and time.
The concentric forms emerge softly from the surface, suggesting weathered shields, ancient maps, or the quiet imprint of something once held sacred. Rough edges and visible fibers remain intentionally exposed, honoring the handmade process and the imperfect beauty of natural materials.
This work invites viewers to slow down and consider what survives: texture, history, touch, and the marks left behind long after words disappear.
A sculptural mixed media piece exploring tension between fragility and structure. Hand-formed flax pulp wraps around layered rattan rings, creating a rhythm that feels both protective and exposed. Mounted on a deeply textured background of collaged handmade Lokta paper, the work plays with shadow, depth, and restraint.
The organic fibers soften the geometry of the rattan, allowing the piece to hover between painting and sculpture — like a preserved form, unearthed and still quietly expanding. The contrast of raw natural materials against the dark surface gives the work a grounded, meditative presence with a subtle architectural edge.
This piece doesn’t try to clean itself up. Fibers stretch, break, and tangle across the surface like a life pulled too far in too many directions. Abaca holds the tension—fragile, but stubborn—while scattered fragments cling on like memories that won’t sit still.
Nothing is resolved here. Threads wander without pattern, looping, snagging, refusing to be contained. The structure feels temporary, like it could give way at any moment, yet it endures—messy, exposed, and fully honest.
Torn Life, Threads Everywhere lives in that space where things fall apart but don’t disappear. It’s about what remains when control is lost—when life frays, stretches, and keeps going anyway.
Formed from abaca paper, this piece becomes a suspended surface—light, porous, and quietly resilient. Delicate linear arcs move across the form, suggesting a structure that isn’t rigid but responsive, like something built to hold without containing.
The subtle tonal shifts and embedded marks feel like traces of time—impressions rather than statements. Nothing here insists; it invites. The work exists in a state of gentle tension, where fragility and strength are not opposites but collaborators.
A sculptural mixed media piece exploring tension between fragility and structure. Hand-formed flax pulp wraps around layered rattan rings, creating a rhythm that feels both protective and exposed. Mounted on a deeply textured background of collaged handmade Lokta paper, the work plays with shadow, depth, and restraint.
The organic fibers soften the geometry of the rattan, allowing the piece to hover between painting and sculpture — like a preserved form, unearthed and still quietly expanding. The contrast of raw natural materials against the dark surface gives the work a grounded, meditative presence with a subtle architectural edge.
Hand-made paper sculpture mounted on collage handmade papers from recycled papers. The sculpture’s armature has stitching next to highlight the support of the sculpture.
Hand-formed from flax and abaca pulp, this sculpture balances strength and fragility in equal measure. The fibers hold tension—soft yet structural—capturing a moment that feels both grounded and weightless. Its surface reveals the quiet labor of making, where raw plant material is transformed into something intimate, tactile, and alive.
Handmade flax and abaca paper stretches across the wall like a fragile skin, marked by ruptures of deep red fiber. Circular forms drift and overlap—suggesting cycles, orbits, or attempts to contain what cannot be held. The work lives in the tension between control and unraveling, where structure tries to organize chaos but never fully succeeds. Each embedded fragment feels like a moment caught mid-impact—memory, body, or emotion—refusing to settle.
It asks quietly: what do we keep circling, even as it pulls us apart?
Neutral Tension explores the quiet push and pull between restraint and movement. Handmade flax pulp forms an organic circular shape that feels both grounded and unsettled, while carved concentric lines create a sense of motion beneath the surface. Mounted on a collage of deep black Lokta paper, the raw texture of the flax becomes amplified — soft against sharp, fragile against bold. The piece invites viewers to sit in the tension between calm and disruption, where neutrality is never truly still.
Form emerges like memory—soft, imperfect, and deeply human. Held in Fiber is sculpted from flax paper pulp, a material that carries both strength and fragility in the same breath. The piece leans into the language of the body without fully declaring it, suggesting a presence rather than defining one.
The surface holds traces of its making—pressed lines, embedded gestures, subtle staining—like echoes of movement captured mid-thought. Its organic curvature creates a quiet tension between containment and release, as if the form is both protecting something and trying to let it go.
Mounted with fishline from the ceiling, it becomes almost architectural, and is allowed to move with the enviroment.