Summer & Fall 2021 Papermaking
Handmade paper, dye, and cyanotype projects in 2021, with Sarah Scarr of @twotrickponypress (Plot 8 partner!) and my friend Josh Dugat.
Plot 8 Tuscaloosa
Plot 8 Tuscaloosa is a papermaking, dye, and printing cooperative in Tuscaloosa that I co-founded with writer and book artist Sarah Scarr of @twotrickponypress. What started out as a community garden plot has morphed into gardens and a small print shop at the “Scandall” homestead and my own shed. We grow and process cotton, flax, indigo, woad, sunflower, milkweed, and several other crops, and print on Sarah’s C&P Press. See our Instagram feed below!
Mycorrhizae
Papermaking for my most recent artist book Mycorrhizae, completed from March 2019 - March 2020. (Click on the images and hover over them for the narrative.)
Contemporary Papermaking
Work completed in course taught by Kyle Holland at The University of Alabama. Techniques include deckle box formation, pigmentation, pulp painting, and blowout.
Bark Papermaking
I learned how to make a Mexican bark paper called amate from Taller Santos Rojas in San Pablito, Puebla, Mexico in the Summer of 2018. Amate has been made continuously in Mexico since about 800 A.D. It was historically used for screenfold books (codices) ritual use, and clothing. Today amate made in San Pablito is primarily sold as a craft product and as decorative art pieces.
Back in Tuscaloosa, I pounded my own Mexican-style bark paper from Alabama kozo (paper mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera) that I harvested wild, using the methods I learned in San Pablito. I used the bark paper for the cover of my book Tribute in the Fall of 2018.
