“With These Hands (C-clamp),” recycled paper pulp with onion skins, 11x19x1", 2022
"With These Hands" is a series of cast paper sculptures of my late father's tools. It is a tribute to him and to all caregivers, who bring a full range of skills to their work either professionally or within their families and communities. The sculptures suggest stewardship and environmental responsibility through care and repair of the things we own. Making (somewhat) fragile relief sculptures of very durable tools, the project doesn't immortalize objects like stone or bronze sculptures would, yet it renders them and the people who use them visible in a new way, and facilitates a dialogue about the kinds of work that society relies on but may not value enough.