ARTIST STATEMENT"As a child in Michigan water surrounded me. I played in it, traveled on it and had fun exploring it. My work continues my youthful exploration focusing on watershed quality, and the physics and structure of water. I hand cut patterned components in two and three dimensions, and for site specific installations. My primary tool is an Xacto knife. With it I hand cut, fold, incise, sculpt, stretch, and tie paper, plastic, Mylar and Tyvek. The act of cutting continually fills me with ideas. The physicality of cutting makes me feel like Zorro." -Susan Knight