Stephanie Damoff
This piece, entitled “Exuberance and superabundance of life”, is a heavily textured rectangular sheet of handmade paper made from kozo, bleached abaca, and recycled watercolor paper. The sheet was then dip-dyed in walnut dye, resulting in an earthy brown. The artist then dripped navy ink on the paper, resulting in dark splotches scattered across the piece.

This highly textured piece from Stephanie Damoff features a unique topographic landscape with various splashes of walnut dye scattered across.

Artist's Statement: "Recently I stumbled (literally) on some walnuts in the Catskills. I collected a bagful in order to figure out how to make walnut dye. I played with various paper surfaces to learn about what the dye could do. The play opened up a new world to experience and enabled new discoveries of form and image.

For this exchange, I cut up two large paper pieces to dip in the walnut dye. I made the pieces in 2019 using kozo, bleached abaca, and recycled watercolor paper, including some rusty bits, some semi ink, possibly some aqua pigment (don't remember quite), and some lilies. Dipping the paper in the walnut transformed the heavily textured pieces into geological forms. On some of them, I then explored more deeply into the landscape with ink."