As an artist and farmer I embody regenerative, anti-consumerist and low-waste practices. My process begins by attending to what is in excess, or what has been ignored. I collect every piece of paper that enters my home, often sorting it by color and category before re-shaping it to serve new purposes. Materials like paper, gray water, plant fiber, eggshells and lint are blended together, creating a pulp that alchemizes ecological and domestic waste. I explore the potential of this material, creating sheets of paper, as well as sculptural tools that explore alternatives to destructive human-centered material and ecological relationships.
My practice is driven by a strong kinship with the more-than human world and intentions to do less harm. Sending materials to the landfill creates feelings of guilt, sadness and longing for something more–like a relationship ended too soon. I grow my own food and often utilize farm-grown material in my artwork to disinvest from consuming habits, increase the organic matter in my work, and embed it with the potential to feed the soil and grow life. Projects have also explored recycling paper back into tree form as reparation for damage done by the paper industry and sculpting “waste paper baskets” that reimagine how waste is held and circulated. Recently I’ve been using lint, eggshells, old lipstick, seeds and dried flowers accumulated in my home as material for drawing and collage, further illustrating maps of circularity and regeneration that guide my process in the garden and the studio.
For more about farming work please visit @twofoldfarm on instagram and www.twofoldfarmandstudio.com.