"Gray Matters"

Mixed Media

48"x36"
Series: "Rough Around the Edges"

This piece is one of my highly experimental pieces!  Once again I have included some wonderful handmade papers.  Some of these papers come from China & are especially thin & quite translucent.  You can't tell from this photo that there is a piece of very thin Chinese paper over the one that has leaves in it!  The corrugated paper is not handmade but a piece of paper I found frozen to the street in the middle of the winter!  For some reason you cannot duplicate the colored patina that wind & weather can contribute to a piece of paper!  By combining these two kinds of paper, very refined, sensitive & delicate with the ordinary I feel you get a better sense of what life is really about.  It lies in the balance of the two!