Stephanie Damoff
This piece, entitled “Makeshift (On Getting By)”, is a horizontally-oriented rectangular piece of handmade paper made from pulp paint, recycled bedsheet, and garden waste. The piece is black and white, with a crater-like landscape painted on the front. The back of the piece is brown with straw-like pulp.

This dual-sided piece presents two ideas: the soft, delicate, moon-like pattern of the front stands in contrast with the brown, harsh, textured back.

Artist's Statement:

"In my makeshift paper making space I shift and transform materials: plants and water into paper, adding scrap materials: disintegrating clothing, purged journal pages, surplus photographs, yard waste, packaging, creating a visual language expressive of my journey through the world. I shift gears on my perspective and priorities, cutting out surrounding nonsense and noise, finding new homes for unneeded items through freecycle, donation, eBay. I muddle through my ever shifting landscape, fighting entropy and waste.

These shifting, drifting landscapes are made from pulp paint, recycled bedsheet, and garden waste: iris, daylily, lily-of-the-valley, spiderwort, lily, weeds."