This piece of upcycled Extra brand gum wrappers is about individuality in the unity of natural cycles. The tiny, unique pieces that fit together to make larger shapes also create an inward swirling pattern around a larger central circle, which I think of as life in the center of its workings. Any of the tiny shapes can be picked out and seen for itself, yet all of them work towards a greater picture. There is importance in the individuality of shapes, as each makes sense in its particular place, which no other shape on the canvas could satisfy. Representative of natural processes that make the world work, shapes might represent plants, animals, or individual raindrops in the water cycle, each reflecting light in a slightly different way, as do the placed wrappers, that make up the shape of the river they flow into.

Cycle is a multimedia art project that explores the relation of individual parts of a whole that laid out in a series of circular shapes.

Close up view of the raised components. These components all interjoin with each other (a la puzzle pieces), but they are raised to different levels within the whole.