Many of you know about my work in handmade paper, and I’d like to dedicate a couple of posts to papermaking. This one features two-dimensional work. First, a brief history about how I got involved with hand papermaking. I moved to NYC in 1987, right after college in Tennessee. After a brief internship with the Department of Cultural Affair’s Percent for Art Program, I fell into a series of jobs in the printing and graphic design industries. A brief trip to Japan during this time (to visit my father who was doing physics research there) sparked my interest in paper; I started looking for ways to go to Japan and study, but soon I discovered Dieu Donné Papermill right in NYC. The Japan trip was […]
