Imagery derives from memories of particular landscapes, beginning with waterways in industrialized New Jersey (and now often farther afield), and recently more personal observations of not dissimilar struggles of aging and those arising during the Covid 19 pandemic. The drawings are constructed sculpturally. I begin by making pigmented papers and then assemble them, still wet, in a quilt-like fashion; later I draw on these constructed surfaces with various densities of paper pulp. The wet pulp on the dried sheets causes a buckling on the surface that appears very much like stitching. The finished works speak to the physicality of the body and simultaneously evoke an intimate sense of touch, in a way akin to being in nature experiencing both vastness and quiet moments of focus.
Nancy Cohen Atlas of Impermanence Catalog
