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