Folded paper

 
 

In The Beginning

Everything begins with a single cell from a letter size piece of paper. Where others saw a book, I found a structure.

Stacked cells

Folded paper printed with original watercolors by artist // 5" x 5" x 10” // 2009 // Los Angeles


flat pair

Folded paper // 2009 // Los Angeles


In the time of pencils

Folded paper printed with drawings and watercolors by the artist // 22” h x 60” w x 36” d // 2010 // Los Angeles

The first of the Lost Cities. Walls on any level are parallel to each other and perpendicular to those immediately above and below.

Cell

Folded paper // 5" x 1.5" x 2” // 2009 // Los Angeles

The basic building unit.


right-angle pair

Folded paper // 2009 // Los Angeles

Right-angle pairs generate a significant number and variety of motifs. They occur in the vast majority of Lost Cities.


Icon 5

Folded corrugated board // 38" h x 26" w x 12” d // 2017 // Los Angeles

A basic stack of five right-angle pairs on two columns.


FOUR COLOR INCHIOSTRO

Folded paper covered with pattern of ceramic tiles // 5” h x 40” w x 40” d // 2015 // Los Angeles

pairs of cells

Folded paper // 2009 // Los Angeles

Two cells make a pair. Pairs of cells are connected in three ways shown above. How each pair connects to the next determines the shape of every work.


bent pair

Folded paper // 2009 // Los Angeles


Tower of Ellie

Folded paper with pattern of ceramic tiles // 18” h x 17” w x 17” d // 2015 // Los Angeles

The basic work using the bent pair—using four columns.


combinations

The works below are all made of combinations of two different pairs.

 

The Red Gate

Folded paper covered with textile pattern // 11” h x 14” w x 14” d // 2015 // Los Angeles


White fortress

Folded paper covered with textile pattern // 11” h x 27” w x 27” d // 2019 // Los Angeles


alhambra tower

Folded paper covered with pattern of ceramic tiles // 32” h x 18” w x 18” d // 2019 // Los Angeles


study in blue

Folded paper covered with textile pattern // 17” h x 26” w x 26” d // 2021 // Los Angeles


Nights in the garden of spain

Folded paper covered in scans of original art in blue ink // 13” h x 36” w x 36” d // 2023 // Los Angeles

pale blue flower

Folded paper covered with textile pattern // 23.5” h x 21” w x 15” d // 2021 // Los Angeles


guelphs and ghibellines

Folded paper covered with pattern of ceramic tiles // 22.5” h x 40” w x 40” d // 2020 // Los Angeles


 

“Creative expression is the need of my soul” 

— don marquis

 

Close up detail of CITY OF FLOWERS

city of flowers

Folded paper covered with textile pattern // 7” h x 36” w x 72” d // 2017 // Los Angeles


city in black in tan

Folded paper covered with textile pattern // 7” h x 34” w x 68” d // 2020 // Los Angeles

World ash tree

Folded paper covered with textile pattern // 15” h x 18” w x 18” d // 2015 // Los Angeles


Blue tripoli—
three over one

Folded paper covered with pattern of ceramic tiles // 5” h x 24” w x 22” d // 2015 // Los Angeles


Pyramid #6

Folded paper covered with scans of original watercolors // 16” h x 34” w x 28” d // 2023 // Los Angeles


ALONG THE NILE

Folded paper pyramid covered with scans of original drawings from Egypt // 17” h x 38” w x 34” d // 2022 // Los Angeles studio


Necropolis

Folded paper // 17” h x 38” w x 60” d // 2021 // Los Angeles

Two folded paper pyramids, one covered with scans of original art, one with textile pattern.


city of atlantis

Folded paper covered with textile pattern // 17” h x 48” w x 48” d // 2021 // Los Angeles


FACES — something new under the sun

Some ideas take time to incubate. In 2015, a new work, called Jeremy and Claire, was stacked in a uniquely different way than all the folded paper works that had gone before. Six years later, connecting multiple similar works would yield a new array of curvilinear configurations.

jeremy and claire

Folded paper covered on two sides with scans of original art // 26” h x 18” w x 4” d // 2015 // Los Angeles


six water color figures

Folded paper covered in scans of original watercolors with white gesso // 17” h x 24” w x 24” d // 2021 // Los Angeles

topsey turvey dancers

Folded paper covered on two sides with scans of original watercolors // 17” h x 40” w x 40” d // 2023 // Los Angeles


 

“Creation is a patient search.” 

— Le Corbusier

 

Topsey Turvey Dancers (video)

ode to joy

Folded paper covered in scans of original watercolors with white gesso // 17” h x 48” w x 72” d // 2021 // Los Angeles

Ode To Joy (detail)

Ode To Joy (video)


mobiles

 

blue flower

Folded paper covered with textile pattern // 30” h x 15” w x 15” d // 2019 // Los Angeles

the glory that was greece

Folded paper covered with scans of original art // 20” h x 15” w x 15” d // 2023 // Los Angeles


“La donna è mobile” 

— verdi’s “Rigoletto”


whatchamacallit

Folded paper covered with ceramic tile pattern // 21” h x 16” w x 16” d // 2023 // Los Angeles

 

alhambra tiles

Folded paper covered with ceramic tile pattern // 23” h x 15” w x 15” d // 2023 // Los Angeles