My work is created with strips of recycled paper collected from magazines, flyers and papers found in my daily life. I am intrigued with the colors and textures in everyday printed matter. Coiling is a very tedious and time-consuming process, it takes countless hours to roll enough strips of magazine pages into coils to create anything of substance. It is an intuitive and ongoing visual experiment.

Each piece begins with a fleeting idea that comes by chance. My mindset is programed to think paper, circular coils and the natural evolution of the product used. Like a puzzle, the composition evolves one piece at a time. I continue to cut, roll and otherwise manipulate possible elements, making decisions about what works and what is needed next to complete the composition, balance, movement, and growth.

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Pod II - 44" x 8" x 8"

Nature inspired sprouted plant seed or marine sea anemone or even a sperm depending on how you look at things. This sculpture is made with recycled raffia a donated from a local business, paper maché bulb covered with recycled colorful magazine paper quills and filled with recycled non perishable trash.

Pod I - 46" x 8" x 8"

Nature inspired sprouted plant seed or marine sea anemone or even a sperm depending on how you look at things. This sculpture is made with recycled raffia a donated from a local business, paper maché bulb covered with book paper quills and filled with recycled non perishable trash.

Pampa Grass

Willow branches & Paper Mâchè structure with salvged raffia weave used for packing at a mass store

Anemone VII

willow branches & paper mâché structure filled with non perishable trash to save it from ending up in the landfill. Covered with paper circles I made out of salvaged and recycled privacy envelopes, the ones that come in the mail with bills even when you sign up for online payments. I completed with seeds made with white seeds, topped with a floral crown I made out of recycled plastic straw protective paper sleeves I have collected from others through the years to resemble the antennae of anemones and painted the top part of the anemone fade to black

Anemone VI

willow branches & paper mâché structure filled with non perishable trash to save it from ending up in the landfill. Covered with paper circles I made out of salvaged and recycled heavy paper and light card stock. Completed with seeds made with privacy envelope paper seeds and topped with a floral crown I made out of recycled pattern paper collected through the years, they resemble the antennae of anemones Waiting for this moment of inspiration. I feel I t was worth the wait. Every sculpture I make is worth the wait for inspiration…

Anemone V

wire & paper mâché structure filled with non perishable trash to save it from ending up in the landfill. Covered in New Yorker magazine paper and envelope seeds. This sculpture took me about 12 days to assemble; I used the left over monochromatic paper coils, quills and so on from all my previous pieces but had to make most of the seeds in real time. The top is made of short strands of paper cord I made out of recycled pattern paper.

Pampa 2

recycled gift tissue paper maché and willow structure with magazine buds

Coral XXXV - 64” x 11” x 11”

White magazine quills with envelope seeds and colorful paper buds

Coral XXXIV

recycled New Yorker Magazine quills with thermal receipt paper tentacles & privacy envelope seeds on a recycled gift tissue paper maché and willow branch structure

Coral XXXIII - 63" x 17" x 14"

Mix Media Assemblage Sculpture

Willow branches, Paper Mâchè & non perishable waste filled coral with New Yorker and thermal receipt paper buds topped with a ss round head pins.

Coral 31 - 61” x 13” x 9”

Mix Media Assemblage Sculpture

Willow branches, Paper Mâchè & gravel structure with a recycled pattern paper mâchè and woven cord with recycled paper buds

Guardians XX, XXII, XXIII, XXIX, XXIV. & XXV

another meeting of the guardians, my newer sculptures, mix media assemblage sculptures using whatever I have in hand to recycle. I repurposed porcelain doll heads donning them with a variety of headwear, and design their bodies as the whole thing comes together. Most bodies contain some nonperishable waste they keep from the landfill and guard the earth.

Guardians V & VII

Guardian V; winner 1st prize Open Media at SC StareFair

Mix Media Assemblage Sculptures

Coral 30 - 61” x 13” x 9”

Mix Media Assemblage Sculpture

Willow branches, Paper Mâchè & Ting Ting grass structure with a recycled paper coned, quilled and tentacles spores

Guardians II, III, IV, VI

a meeting of the guardians, my newer sculptures, made with recycled magazine coned and domed coiled head wear on repurposed porcelain doll heads with a paper maché and willow branch bodyes

Coral, Spore and Sponge installation

Coral 29 - 31” x 22” x 8"

Mix Media Assemblage Sculpture

Willow branches, Paper Mâchè & black stone structure with a recycled paper coned spore

Sea Anemone in plastic

Zip tie sculptures

Coral 28 - 56” x 10” x 10”

Mix Media Assemblage Sculpture

Willow branches, Paper Mâchè, gravel structure with recycled paper buds

Coral 27 - 27" x 11" x 7"

colorful People magazine pinched quills with seeds and guitar strings

Coral 26 - 31" x 11" x 8"

willow and papier Maché structure, weight down with tumbled sea shell bits holding a coned open spore suspended by fishing wire,

Spore Cluster II

spores and coral as they intended to be collected,

StarFish - 20" x 22" x 5"

Willow and paper Maché structure, covered with white receipt paper domes and a splash of colorful magazine paper and edged with seeds.

Coral XXV (25) 34"H x 9"W x 9"D

willow and papier Maché structure, weight down with salvaged marbles covered in recycled & salvaged thermal receipt paper coils and junk mail seeds

Coral XXIII (23) - 28'H X 13"W X 8"D

Willow and papier Maché structure, weight down with salvaged marbles covered in recycled colorful @Land’s End and @Sundance magazine paper in the lower quadrants and thermal receipt paper top quadrant with silver edged book seeds.

Coral XXIII (23) - 31"H x 12"W x 8"D

At the 2023 Shanghai International Paper Art Biennial - willow and papier Maché structure, weight down with salvaged marbles covered in recycled black and white @NewYorker magazine, receipt, junk mail, bible & dictionary paper manipulated coils, quills and seeds topped with paper buds made with receipt paper. The center conch and bud extensions are painted with Japanese blackest black acrylic paint.

Coral 21 - 31” x 12” x 9”

Best in Show Winner 2023 @ the South Carolina State Fair - willow and papier Maché structure, weight down with salvaged marbles covered in recycled black and white @NewYorker magazine paper and seeds topped with paper buds.

Coral XIX - 67" x 9" x 8"

Mix Media assemblage sculpture - Willow branches and paper maché sculpture with recycled thermal receipt paper buds. The base is weighed down with recycled glass marbles.

Coral XVIII -

recycled shopping paper pinched quills & red edge book seeds with thermal paper buds on paper maché structure assemblage sculpture

Coral XVII - 19" x 9" x 9"

Monochromatic book paper pinched quills with red edged paper seeds assemblage sculpture