Ephemera
Flowers and leaves coated in Liquitex gloss pouring medium, when Papai first experimented with dipping organic objects into the medium.
A doily Papai's friend gave her, which influenced her aesthetic for her overall body of work in Fall 2024.
Papai's basket of goodies, ranging from dead bees, grasshoppers, screws, roses, leaves, and more found objects to dry together. In it there is also silica packets to prevent molding from occurring.
Pt. 2 of basket of goodies.
A broken vase Papai originally wanted to keep safe yet it fell in her studio and shattered twice, causing her to glue it together then make it an artwork of itself.
Process of Papai's scanning for screen prints of organic materials, all objects present were gifts and hold sentimental value.
A bouquet of roses gifted to Papai for her anniversary, they lived on her studio desk as she watched them die. Documented the different stages of decomposition and encasing them in those stages later on.
Papai's Senior studio space in Fall semester 2024, capturing in progress works, past works, inspiration wall and simply just the behind the scenes of the artist.
Found fabric is a big part of Papai's practice and has been since Sophomore year at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Utilizing thrifted lace, scarves, shirts, and other materials to build up surface.
Papai's late Grandpa's blue button up shirt that she took when she was young, and has always kept as a sentimental object for her craft, ended up becoming an artwork itself.
Papai's rolling cart of organic material she places her objects on as she works. She decides what goes on a painting based on what she has or what she can forage.
Found objects on the side of the road in a construction site gifted to Papai by her best friend, broken glass shards, rusted metal objects and cds. All of which fall somewhere into the category of her work.
Gifted floral arrangement that Papai disected and broke apart according to what interested her, placing it in this box to dry and brittle up. While other parts got coated in Liquitex.
Papai's paint residue canvas and black lace in her Junior year. Papai had a lot of interest in mark and would use scraps as inspiration for future work of art.
Roses Papai found and hung in her Junior studio space to dry and be used in her first ever organic material painting.
Papai's Junior studio space in Spring semester of 2024, full of abstracted work and a large array of experimentation, you can see the thought process bouncing off of each wall.
End of Sophomore year in Spring 2023, all work got taken down and ready for her first big crit presentation. Overall it was an interesting an emotional experience to take down all of the art she worked so hard on.