My work with biomorphic shapes, though abstract, suggest shapes and gestures of the natural world. Made with wire and paper pulp, the textures resemble bone or shell.

The skeletal and ephemeral vessels hold light and delineate space. Boats are made with wood, bamboo sticks, teabags and string, or with wire and paper pulp. I use rusty wire, old tomato cages, and bits and pieces found among spider webs in garages and garden sheds. 

The mobiles, a collaboration with my husband, Tom Russell, are made of wire and paper, string and cardboard, as well as bits of rusted metal detritus such as springs, nails, and screws. Some of the parts are dipped in abaca pulp which allows the rust to bleed through the sinewy skin that forms. Some are dyed with tea, others are hand sewn. All are hung by threads and wire and carefully balanced, so they move unimpeded, stirred by air currents in the surrounding space.