Fragile Morphologies of Pulp Bodies

Understanding the idea of a body as extraordinarily relative to and inherently part of its environment, I believe that the material process of hand papermaking functions as a mode of visualizing or working through trans-corporeality. In this book, I delve into the particulars of water and its significance as it relates to my interest in trans-corporeal bodies; entangled histories from art historical perspectives as they relate to my own creative practice and research interests; and the significance of handmade paper and pulp as a material. This book also includes documentation of my own paper sculpture and installation process, visualizing the fragility of our relationship to the water infrastructure we are dependent upon, and the way our own embodied boundaries ultimately dissolve into trans-corporeality. Part sculpture, part pop-up amateur lab, part investigation of domestic sources of water, this project functions best as it falls apart, reckoning our continuous but permeable state.