On Paper
The Mummy's Curse and the Armani Suit
A few hundred years of papermaking history wrapped into a talk, a tale, and an adventure. I presented this paper, in a slightly longer illustrated version, during the 2007 College Art Association conference, in New York. It tells why I choose to continue to make my own paper when paper is so readily available and not all that expensive.
The cathartic experience of papermaking. (published in HAND PAPERMAKING, Summer 2009)
How valuable is a first edition book?
Thank you Jackie Kennedy.
The manuscript my father-in-law left for me.
I turned the clothing I was wearing on November 22, 1963 into paper..
The root of why I make what I use, it's probably genetic.
Store-bought paper. Store-bought bread.
Answers as to how and why I decided to make paper in a non rectangular format.
A poem revealing the source of the use of paper.