Paper behaves with its own quiet agency. Made from plants, then soaked, torn and reworked, it becomes a partner in the process of ‘working through’. There is irony in writing with paper rather than on it; the material holds memory, resistance and possibility. In Unearthed Grammar, the drying process reshaped the forms, material matter working its alchemy, becoming part of the meaning and echoing the unresolved, the enmeshed, the unknown. Alongside these works, I journal visually, a daily pastel practice where subconscious imagery surfaces in quick, two-word titled pieces that echo recurring themes.