Close-up detail of Homage 1, a layered and hand-carved paper artwork by Michele Bonds

Using paper as the conduit, I sculpt personal and collective mythologies to create a journey.

“Michele Bonds affixes sheet after sheet of colored paper to her panels and then turns the razor on them. Her work feels topographical, near geological, carved through sweat and effort, busy with crags and pleasantly uneven bits that could only have come from a human hand bearing a dangerous object.”

Tris McCall, NJArts.net

Michele Bonds carving a layered paper artwork in her studio