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Cut entirely from one sheet of black paper with scissors, centers on a solitary duck gliding across still water, surrounded by an ornate, living wreath of reeds, blossoms, insects, and birds and fish in motion. The fragility of the material is unmistakable—the thin bridges of paper hold an entire ecosystem together, each cut both deliberate and irreversible, echoing the delicacy of the habitats it depicts. The circular form suggests continuity and enclosure at once, a quiet meditation on systems that persist through balance rather than permanence. The duck, rendered through patient incision rather than drawn line, becomes an anchor within a broader field of movement and interdependence. Around it, forms gather and disperse, evoking migration and seasonal return, recalling places such as the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, where birds move through fragile coastal landscapes shaped by water and time. The work holds a tension between precision and vulnerability: a single sheet transformed into a complex web, where absence defines presence, and where the slightest tear would alter the whole.
