2019
Paper pulp painting on handmade paper
28" x 21" (mounted in a box frame, 35" x 27.5")
Signed in paper pulp (“JLA”) in lower right.
This work was made while I was taking a 5-day paper making workshop at Carriage House Paper (Brooklyn). After I saw the shapes and colors on the large sheet of colored paper that I created by pouring different paper pulp colors on a mesh screen (as is traditional in handmade paper making), I was inspired by a sketch that appeared in the New York Times during the workshop. Notre Dame was ablaze. The NYT published a sketch made by a young firefighter that was critical in aiding the firefighters in putting out the fire. The flames and the heat almost caused Notre Dame to collapse.