Ever since I started working on a basic design project for college I've become obsessed with paper. It can be so blank and empty, yet full of so much potential at the same time. Paper is one of our earliest mechanisms for capturing the written word, a perenial receptacle for all our subconscious doodlings. Where would we be without the problem-solving organisational asset of the list hurriedly jotted down on scrap paper? What child hasn't thrown a paper aeroplane and dreamt of flying through an imagined world? Love notes, post-Its, Invitations, Birth Certificates, these fragile leaves accompany our whole lives, anchors in the constantly evolving process of living. 
In Japan Origami, the art of creating folded paper shapes, is an ancient art form, a meditative process loaded with spiritual meaning, for me it is more than a mechanism for capturing my worded thoughts, it's the basic tool with which I seek to express my creative drive. In cutting, scrunching, shaping, drawing, sculpting paper forms I am tapping directly into my unconcious, creating an immediate and fulfilling if not sometimes exhausting dialogue with myself.
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