SFNWVLEI Gouaches

2004

Something from Nothing With Very Little Effort Involved is a series of illustrative gouache paintings depicting the process of making Paper Pulp Panels (link). Paper Pulp Panels are made out of Zittel’s paper waste: mail order catalogs and junk mail and other miscellaneous packaging in an attempt to mine her most plentiful “natural resource.” The title includes a note of humor, rather than being easy to make the panel process ended up being incredibly labor and time intensive.