Conversation with Leaf Cuttings

These more complex works build upon my Conversations with Leaf Prints practice. In them, I combine botanical printing and papercutting to reveal and emphasize the fractal patterns embedded within both nature and human experience. The botanical prints provide a field of organic forms, while the papercutting process allows me to draw out the images and relationships I perceive within them.

Using a swivel-tip X-Acto knife, I carve away portions of the paper to explore the idea that life is shaped as much by absence as by presence. Fractal existence is not only composed of what remains visible, but also of what has disappeared, been transformed, or left its imprint through time. The visible and invisible, the living and the dead, the material and the immaterial exist as overlapping layers within a larger evolutionary story.

By removing paper rather than adding to it, I create images that emerge from both what is there and what is missing. These works reflect my belief that the patterns of life are formed through an ongoing dialogue between emergence and loss, memory and forgetting, presence and absence.