Dianne L. Reeves

Reeves is a Houston based artist who creates her sculptural books from paper and paper pulp. The pulp that Reeves uses is derived from local as well as exotic plant sources. Reeves writes, “As my art deals with the base roots of cultures – people and their lifestyles, rituals, beliefs, and challenges of survival on a basic level – so too the pulp comes from a basic root source – natural fibers. For example, cedar was used by and considered to be a source of “life” by certain cultures. A manner of existence came from this ‘tree’, including the beginning of life. The pieces (in the exhibition) incorporating the cedar pulp are depicting the shrine to this culture in memorial to the losses, hardships, and setbacks they may have suffered… The use of any other pulp would not, I feel, have been the means to this expressive end”.