Sleeper

Matthew Shlian 

"Sleeper" 

Shlian began his academic career focused on ceramics, but soon realized he wasn’t just interested in ceramics. He was interested in everything. He soon found he loved the immediacy of paper as his medium. An advisor gifted him a pop-up book and after some investigation into their mechanics, his style took off. The artist says his starting point for each piece is curiosity. He goes on to say that he must finish a work to understand it, and that the end result is a surprise.

Sleeper composes a stack of 36 acid free / archival sheets and cuts from them a series of undulating waves. As light travels across its carved surface, a play of texture, form and repetition is revealed.

8 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 1/2 inches