I deliberately took a step back from too much involvement in organizing our interim show at the Rag Factory, both because I felt like I had been too much in the forefront of organizing things on the course last year, and some other students should step up to do this, and because I knew I had a very busy summer planned. I had hoped that I would return from the summer with some finished work appropriate for the show, but no dice; instead the work I wound up showing was a literal study: Upon returning from the States in early September I had begun practicing cutting on leaves themselves, rather than on paper, mostly in order to learn about their delicate structures. The cut leaves turned out to make beautiful shadows, so that was what I wanted to show. I brought the leaves pretty much exactly as they were from my studio, desklamp and all...arguably this could have been better presented, but it felt very liberating to do this with what was very much work in progress.

The space was very interesting, but due to the timing of the show relative to the summer and the start of the term, I together with many others missed the opportunity to do work that was truly site-specific. The resulting show felt a little crowded: For my own work its less-is-more quality owrkd in its favor under the circumstances, I think.