Multiplicity, No. 2 Collage

This abstract artwork combines the shapes, rhythms, and patterns of cellular shapes and mushroom caps abundantly proliferating around each other to produce a cellular study, a biome, the idea that everything is borne from the cell, the seed of an idea. Inspired by the scale of repetition and multiplicity of El Anatsui's found material weavings and Nick Cave's 'Until' installation, I created this piece using ink pens a variety of recycled and repurposed papers to create the individual elements I then collaged onto an acrylic background. Papers used include: -used and new coffee filters -washed tea bags -repurposed paint chip samples -brittle old book pages -decorative art papers -security envelopes -graph paper -kraft paper bag This piece is composed on a 20" x 30" piece of masonite panel and comes shipped, unframed. Signed and dated on front and back of the work.