Cut Paper

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Fish

2009-10-13T20:14:00.000-04:00

Working

2008-11-21T01:56:00.002-05:00

Floating World

2008-07-27T20:51:00.002-04:00

Floating World
Accoridan Book
Paper, vellum, ink, water-color, acrylic
April 2008

Text inside reads:
"Floating World

For my Mother

On the morning you found out your mother died, the high tide ushered hundreds of glowing orange starfish to the shore where they faded to white in the sun, then bowed their five arms to you. Violet wine soaks your mouth & every blossom for miles; you bury yourself in the sand to feel the weight of your breath--the gentle collapse of your mother's gray lungs.

I decorate your shape: baby's ears, periwinkles, paddle the sand around your body--you remain silent but shake until the sand fissures & the shells tumble down your sides.

Mother, you & I are as bright and distinct as the far-off dunes when we walk along the shoreline, inexhaustible & long as our legs, our breaths. We search for the sea turtle nests--the strokes of fins & shell towards the sons & daughters buried in cold sand--while at night we look for your mother in the stars, staring hard until it means nothing, like repeating the word--Mother, mother, mother."

Sand Castle

2008-07-27T20:49:00.002-04:00

Sand Castle
Triangle folds
June 2008
Paper, ink, watercolor pencils

Aeolian Dune

2008-07-27T20:44:00.002-04:00

Aeolian Dune
Accordion book with handmade paper by Dad, paper-cuts, vellum, seashells.
July 2008

Text inside reads:
"Collect the smallest shells
from the dunes--so small,
you could fit one on your tooth,
close your mouth
and it would remain intact."

Text on outside (back) reads:
"Aeolus, play your wind harp--take me away..."

X-acto Master & Where Poems Go

2008-07-27T20:42:00.005-04:00

Popup Studio NYC

Featured on a blog for the studios that engineer the books by Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart!

Swift Cathedral

2008-07-05T14:15:00.002-04:00

Swift Cathedral
Black paper-cut and white sketch
June 2008

+ My new, tremendous cutting board that my dad made for me. It leans against my bedroom wall, painted celery-green.

Fox in the Woods

2008-07-05T14:07:00.000-04:00

Fox in the Woods
Paper-cut, two layers
Collaboration with Brandon Basino, after a song/poem
The Mansion, September 2007
Care of Brandon Basino

In Your Hands

2008-07-05T14:00:00.000-04:00

In Your Hands?
Paper-cut
September 2007
CD artwork for Brandon Bassino as Billy Idyll

Conte Online

2008-07-05T13:56:00.002-04:00

My poem "Vanitas, Burying a Fox" was published in the online journal Conte.

Vanitas, Burying a Fox

Once you are dead, you are nothing.
- Graffiti from the House of the Centenary, Pompeii

Hayley holds a fox skull up to her face, scattered tan hairs
escape around the fissures in the animal bone—
rotting peach-white, yellowing like the receipts at Rice Bowl
where the grease is so thick, it's in the fibers
of the paper and our skin. We always ask for extra
bamboo stalks in our stir fry, burrow through cartons of fried rice with bits of egg,
because, your eyes will soon be sparking ... Conte

Portraits

2008-07-05T13:46:00.000-04:00

Terrestrial Portrait & Water Portrait
Paper-cut
Terrestrial Portrait published in the Kudzu Review, 2008 & Sold
Water Portrait, care of Yvonne Wahl
Both exhibited in the Red Metal Door Gallery, October 2007

Kudzu

2008-06-09T18:21:00.000-04:00

Penelope Waiting, Waving a Shroud with Kudzu
Paper-cut
Cover art-work for The Kudzu Review
Undergraduate literary magazine at Florida State University
2008

"Operation: Dreamland"

2008-06-04T17:20:00.000-04:00

"Operation: Dreamland"
April 2008
Phyllis Strauss Gallery
Collaboration with Clayton Rychlik, accompanying music

"Operation: Dreamland" Snapshot

2008-06-04T11:22:00.000-04:00

"Operation: Dreamland"
April 2008
Phyllis Strauss Gallery
Collaboration with Clayton Rychlik, accompanying music

Chattering

2008-06-04T11:13:00.000-04:00

"bloom burst--
puh
chattering, and then
departing"

April 2007
Phyllis Strauss Gallery
Collaboration with Karen Tharpe, ceramicist

Braille of Swallows

2008-06-03T22:01:00.000-04:00

This paper-cut was displayed in the Red Metal Door Gallery of April 2006 in a show called "Growth." It is titled, "Braille of Swallows," loosely based off a poem as well as news stories I had heard about birds dropping out of the sky, birds tangled in wires, birds electrocuted by towers.

Braille of Swallows

But for the wind through the tall grasses ,

husks scraping and hair whipped in the breeze,

the stillness sounds harsh billowing dawn.

Plumes of drifting sand, the slight speckled voice,

follows the white, white road arcing at the moon

and an aching morning light eases the whisper of the vale.

A slight, barely-drop through the sparkle-berry trees,

the landing, so pale, in rows of feathers,

lifeless birds crash, braille in the fields––

What begins with one fall becomes another,

spells out faintly teeth through hair and a skirt dropped

in the unsuspected, fumbling dark of a hushed accord.

A flock loses itself, on a cold, bright field

of reeds and ruffled knees,

in the folds and tousles of graying cotton,

where passing cars don’t listen for the feathered flaps

or light chirrups––

a song goes missing from the air