An ongoing exploration: first, painting patterns on paper, then cutting shapes from this, and, finally, piecing selected fragments together using glue and tiny paper bridges to create a new composition, like an elaborate paper quilt. The series is titled ‘Shivering Fragments’, a phrase borrowed from the journal of Virginia Woolf, describing the way we piece together thoughts and memories to create meaning.

“I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind’s passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.”

The resulting two-sided collages, (one side colorful, the other quiet but revealing the slow construction process) can be pressed between two panes of glass in a floating frame so that both sides are visible; alternatively, they can hang on a constellation of tiny nails, slightly away from the wall and casting subtle shadows.

Like bridges spanning watery canals, each paper ‘trail’ in this map, this labyrinth, responds both to the adjacent colored fragments as well as to the negative spaces among them.