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Most people who stand in front of my work think they’re looking at woven textile, ceramic or stone. The read changes with the texture , and that’s exactly the point. They reach out to touch it, scratch it, knock on it ; as if the material itself holds the answer. It doesn’t. I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The material is paper. Not the paper of sketchbooks or packaging ; an ancient, cellulose-based matter, worked by hand, built layer by layer until it becomes something else entirely. Something that reads as mineral, as earth, as skin.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Paper has been shaped by human hands for centuries. But somewhere along the way it became associated with the disposable, the temporary, the cheap. My work is a deliberate reversal of that assumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Through layering, sculpting and years of material experimentation, I push it to its limits ; until it carries the weight of stone without its heaviness, the depth of ceramic without its fragility.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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In a hotel lobby, a suite, an exceptional interior, the effect is immediate. A presence that stops you. A surface that invites touch. A material that seems to breathe. And underneath all of it ; paper, reinvented by hand into something that didn’t exist before.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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There are thousands of ways to dress a wall. Very few leave a lasting impression on the people who live with them. That’s what I’m after : not a surface, but an experience. Not decoration, but a sculptural presence that changes the way a space feels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it starts with paper.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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