Tides of indigo, ocean blue, and shadowed teal move across the surface, layered with dyed cheesecloth that settles like currents beneath the waterline. Thread-like twine traces quiet directional lines, while sculpted pulp rises in compact, dimensional forms — textured ridges and clustered shapes that feel like coral, earth, or ancient stone resting at the ocean floor. Stark variations of color break through the surface, echoing the mystery, contrast, and richness of depths unseen.

Into the Deep is a meditation on descent — not as falling, but as choosing to go beneath the surface, to explore what lives below clarity and light.

The piece begins in paint, forming an atmospheric ground like layered sea or night sky. Dyed cheesecloth is added in multiple tones, creating shifts in depth and movement, like currents passing over one another. Twine is placed as faint structure — subtle pathways, direction, or anchors.

A mixture of pulped book pages and reclaimed fibers is then sculpted tightly by hand, forming compact raised ridges and shapes. Unlike the airy forms in pieces like Floating in Space, this pulp is firm and weighty, carved rather than clouded — suggesting presence, foundation, and what endures in the unseen.

Color breaks sharply across the sculpted areas, heightening contrast and hinting at the way light behaves underwater — fractured, rare, and holy.

A piece about going inward, going downward, going honestly —
and finding beauty in the quiet spaces where truth settles and grows.