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I started folding books in the fall of 2014 when I created Jude Deveraux (left) for a sculpture class. Instantly, I became fascinated by the unexpected sculptural patterns which emerged from simply tiling the folded books next to one another. Over the past three years, I have created over a dozen finished pieces—all variations on the original theme. Trashy romance, trade sci-fi, or pocket western: all original content becomes lost in the form; only the folding angles and tessellation patterns matter.

Top: Sample source material. Left: Jude Deveraux, 2014. 3’ x 4’. Used romance novels, glue, board. Brown University

Student Exhibition 2014 Grand Prize Winner. Acquired by the Brown University Stephen Roberts ‘62 Campus Center.

Jane Feather, 2016. 1.5’ x 2.5’ Used romance novels, glue, board.

Helen McMaster Bujald, et al., 2017.

3’ x 3’. Used romance novels, glue, board.

Lois L’Amour, 2016. 2’ x 2’. Used westerns, glue, board.

K. A. Applegate, 2016. 3’ x 5’. Used Animorphs, glue, board.

Garth Nix, et al., 2015. 3’ x 3’. Used fantasy novels, glue, board.

Jude Deveraux, 2014. 3’ x 4’. Used romance novels, glue, board.

Left: Garth Nix, et al., 2015. 3’ x 3’.

Used fantasy novels, glue, board.

Right: Lois L’Amour, 2016. 2’ x 2’.

Used westerns, glue, board.

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Above: Riffle, 2016. 10’ x 20’. Used porn, board, nails. Installation for the 2016 Seattle Erotic Art Festival. Right: Isometric schematic.

Above: Riffle II, 2016. 12’ x 8’ x 4’. Used porn, board, nails. Installation on the ceiling and upper walls of my apartment’s bathroom. Left: Isometric schematic.

Left: Vug I & II, 2017. Each 2’ x 6’. Used

National Geographics, nails, board, door hinges. Top left: Sample source material. Right: Installation view, McCaw Hall.

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In Dust to dust, I suspended a plane of cobbles from a metal grid using only hot glue and fishing line. The rocks, floating above the viewer’s head, sway slightly and knock into each other.

Occasionally, one would fall (much to the chagrin of the curators.) For my senior solo show entitled Foliation (next page), I created a series of wall hanging rock sculptures, and Flood, an installation of phyllite in the corner of the gallery. In geology, foliation refers to repetitive layering in metamorphic rocks and the tendency of certain micaceous rocks to break along parallel planes, forming sheets not unlike pages in a book.

Above: Dust to dust, 2013. 3’ x 3’ x 14’. Rocks, glue, fishing line, custom welded support. Brown

University Student Exhibition 2014 Grand Prize Winner. Far left: Dust to dust, detail from below.

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Clockwise from far right: Flood, 2014. 3’ x 4’ x 5’. Found phyllite installation. Grave, 2014. 2’ x 2’. Slate,

grout, board. Fall, 2014. 2’ x 2’. Found phyllite, grout, board. Creep, 2014. 2’ x 2’. Slate, grout, board. Warp,

2014. 2’ x 2’. Found phyllite, grout, board. All works exhibited as part of senior solo show, entitled Foliation.

Right: Flood, detail. Far right: Warp, 2014. 3’ x 3’. Found phyllite, grout. Detail.

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Above: Linea, 2014. 1’ x 2’ x 6”.

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mesh, plywood. Right and far left: Details.

Fort, 2015. 10’ x 10’ x 5’ (1’ x 1’ x 1’ deflated). Trash bags, heat gun, PVC pipe,

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In my senior year, I devised a method with which I could create and seal an opening between trash bags by melting their plastic together with a heat gun. Once tied shut, all the connected bags act topologically as one volume. This allowed me to design structures made only of bags, which I could inflate on-site in a matter of minutes. I created Castle (following page), which hung from a framework of PVC pipe and consisted of four chains of connected bags. Fort (left), is made of 35 bags, and rises into a self-supporting igloo on inflation. It is large enough to hang out inside.

Castle, 2015. 6’ x 6’ x 10’.

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Far left: Noah, 2017. 1’ x 2’. Charcoal and conte on tinted paper. Left: Quinby, 2017. 2’ x 2’. Charcoal and conte on tinted paper.

Left: Oceans II, 2014. 11” x 17”. Monoprint. Above: Oceans I & IV, details. Right: Uncharted II, 2014. 11” x 17”. Screenprint on folded paper.