During a fallow period when I was struggling to find my way back to art-making, I asked myself what I loved to do as a child; the first thought that surfaced was cutting paper. Serendipitously, I was in a friend’s home around the same time, completing a weekly house-cleaning job and noticed a small metal box with a glass front, filled with Milagros. In the way that thoughts and ideas can miraculously combine to make something new, I decided to try shadow boxes with cut paper. I have no idea how the blue and white palette was born, just that it was a color combination I craved and still need in my life.

I also experimented with silverpoint, and the foundation for these boxes was meditative documentation; they resemble the display cases found in a natural history museum.

I plan to make more blue shadow boxes, and I’m also working on some miniature boxes that owe a debt to Randolph Caldecott and Beatrix Potter.
See an example below.