Metastrophic is the word I use to describe the last year of my life. When my relationship in Austin evaporated, I traveled to Pennsylvania and started making marbleized paper. Then, visited a friend in Taos where I began cutting and collaging my paper to create landscapes of the western high desert. Using a marbleizing process, mixing oil paint and turpenoid, I drop paint on a pan of water. Then, swirl it and lift the pattern with a piece of heavy watercolor paper. Pressing those pages to make them flat, I then cut patterns of the paper to make my image using light and shadow to determine the shapes, as well as the actual shapes and forms of the object I am portraying. All of this is applied to Japanese handmade paper to form an impression of the feelings and scenes I've encountered with a metastrophic representation of the transformation I, myself, have had in the past 15 months.