The idea to create the works displayed here emerged out of a fascination with the action of pouring ink onto rice paper and seeing how it would slowly spread and create irregular shapes and margins. I had first started using black sumi ink in the early 90s, but back then I preferred watercolor paper to rice paper, which generally favored long calligraphic gestures compared to rice paper. Thus some of the rice paper that I had purchased at that time became lost among my studio materials for decades until recently, when I rediscovered it and had a more open enough mind to try and figure out why this particular support was even invented.