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 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.