Cycles

Media: Boston Ivy and Iris Paper Pulp

Statement:
Cycles uses shaped Boston ivy that dried and fell from the back of my building in the autumn. I selectively dipped the completed structure in iris paper pulp, made from harvesting my iris leaves as the plants began to go dormant.

Transcendence

Media: Cattail, corn, pigmented cattail, and bird netting

Statement:
Transcendence is an elegant wall piece composed of paper pulp from kitchen scraps (corn husks) and garden waste (cattail weeded from a friend’s pond) and discarded bird netting (formerly used to protect the rooftop grapes from birds and raccoons).

Urge

Media: cotton/abaca pulp, cotton pulp paint, purged journal pages, metallic leaf, and bird netting

Statement:
Cotton/abaca pulp, cotton pulp paints, purged journal pages, metallic leaf, and bird netting combine in a riot of color and text fragments.

Biography

Stephanie Damoff is a papermaker and photographer. She is interested in the world—both the mundane and the natural world—and in transforming how we perceive the world. She does this literally by transforming found objects into paper and sculptures and through the compositions of her camera lens.

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