This design had to be put together off the ducting because of the many slender parts.

Casting ducting with its stiff spiral of spring steel wire create flexible & structurally strong forms.

We wove straps of overbeaten abaca and then cut the weavings into 2” x 3” pieces for the 2019 Swatch Swap book.

We’ve been making pastel drawings for a while now, we wondered how we could bring the drawing and the sculpture together.

We have made several of these bamboo and abaca structures and we’re still learning.

Our working method is discontinuous

We make paper objects that we find visually alluring, but seldom think of them as sculpture.

Crumple some copper sheeting with a rubber mallet and set it on edge.

We deckle boxed a sheet of mixed black and white cotton pulp.

Putting a patch of low shrinkage cotton fiber onto a high shrinkage ground like abaca produces a wonderful puffing effect.

The next step for our coil evolution - making them heftier and more resilient to studio and composing wear and tear.

Up to now, the coils have stayed on one plane, fabricated and dried on a flat table top; however, when we used them in compositions, we liked that when they were under load they lost their flatness and twisted into 3 dimensions.

We like negative space, so we cast some.

Carving grooves in pink insulation foam board to cast coil designs seems clever, but impractical.

We use a lot of hidden wire, velcro, tape and nails to attach our paper objects to each other, but we don't like hiding things; we prefer making connectors part of the work.