Various States #4 explores the materiality of paper as a metaphor for skin. Like flesh, paper is delicate and marked by time; it folds, wrinkles, creases, and tears, carrying the memory of pressure and movement.
This drawing is from a series that documents the gradual transformation of a single sheet of paper. I repeatedly scrunched and smoothed the surface, recording each stage of its evolution. In Various States #4, the paper begins to degrade, revealing what it has endured: frayed edges, slight tears, and a soft collapse of structure as form gives way to fragility.