Gift is a meditation on the material paper. The seed of this piece is the transformative power of a gift. Plant life, used to create paper – the material for this book – can be viewed both as something that needs to be cleared by a new land owner, or as a gift. Plant life provides material for this paper and also the nutrients and oxygen of our planet, and it stabilizes the earth. Likewise, the paper in this book could be quickly cast in a recycling bin as valueless, or given freely as a gift and placed with other treasures in a collection. This paper records an unseen worth: it captures spirit.
