Dorman’s work is a riotous and ruthless romp through history as a means of investigating the present moment. Bits of paper ephemera - the knowledge of a previous era - fill the compositions. Paper of any sort is fair game - maps, books, technical manuals, player piano scrolls all find their way in Dorman’s work. These bits are de-contextualized and re-contextualized to tell a new story about where we are now. The works, in antique paper, ink and acrylic on panel, range in size from the intimate 9x12 inches to the monumental scale of over 6 feet in height by 5 feet in width. Layering, manipulating, and combining disparate images, Dorman builds and crafts and excavates and rebuilds until the compositions tell a story of a moment in time - of this moment in time.