Big Little Tiny Series

This series brings together three orders of scale on 28 × 44 inch sheets of handmade paper. A brush-drawn Milky Way, rendered in white ink, stretches across the surface—its form traced from a specific historical depiction. The Earth enters as fragments of historical maps or celestial charts, partial and mediated. Within the field created by these two vast frameworks, a single genus of minute terrestrial creatures inhabits each drawing.

The work stages a collision of magnitudes: the cosmic, the planetary, and the nearly unseen. Each element is filtered through systems of representation—astronomical mapping, cartography, scientific illustration—revealing how scale is not only perceived, but constructed.

In dialogue with Infestations and Big–Little–Tiny, the series turns toward the instability of human-centered valuation. What is too large exceeds comprehension; what is too small is easily dismissed. Yet both lie outside the limits of our attention. Here, the minute is given presence within the same field as the vast, not as contrast alone, but as a rebalancing—an insistence on the intrinsic value of what is typically overlooked.

Each work is drawn in ink on handmade paper. The series is ongoing.