Honors Studio -- Boundless 

January 21, 2025 

Materials: paper shreds, watercolor paper, gouache paint, color pencil, acrylic paint marker, thread 












How to Talk to The Ants -- 

The text is meant to have a double entendre for anything the viewer would like it to mean. It can be folded up, tacked on a wall, or taken apart. If the viewer reads between the lines, literally, there is something we can take away from the piece--if we constantly ask to change ourselves, is it really that terrible if we turn into an ant at the end? 

The paper and thread are intended to reference that of a book that lost its binding a long time ago. I wanted to make my own paper because I think the piece would sit differently if I used watercolor paper like I did for every other cutout. Because the paper is so fragile in some spots, it indicates life, something worn. The thickness of the paper took a little experimentation to get something thick enough to withhold glue, but not be so thick that it look like cardboard. 

A zine inspired piece, the process of this project utilized the making of homemade paper. Over several days, I soaked shredded paper and then blended it into a pulp in a blender, then put the pulp in more water which was to be the base for the paper. 

After critique, Imani suggested I add ant antennae to the final spread to make it more cohesive about what is happening to me. 


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