Between 2006 and 2008, I made large-scale works on paper hovering between the mediums of painting, drawing and collage. These works, comprising pieces of painted paper collaged together and/or placed in relation on a wall, made literal my method of making a painting--in an attempt at extending and complicating painting’s typical materially derived definition. While a painting, often made up of paint and canvas, ultimately becomes a unified material entity, these paintings do not physically meld. Instead, the disparate “layers” of a painting are spread apart laterally--a paper growth organism able to extend itself perpetually, in theory. Working in paint on paper and heavily employing collage functions as a means of deconstructing my paintings, allowing me to delve deeper into the reasons behind my making.