I was awarded a residency at Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 2021 to create a body of works on paper that relate to a new series of sculpture. The series, ultimately, was named Neotectonic Period. I have been fascinated with tectonic plates since I was a child, growing up in the Finger Lakes of New York, where you can see the action of time in every hillside. Beneath all that sedimentary action, was the pressure of the sliding plates.