From the Artist: I have been so fortunate. My pandemic experience has been a period of quiet reflection and creativity rather than a story of personal loss. I love sculpting with paper. I relish creating three dimensional figures from this fundamentally flat medium. I make my work with craft paper, wooden skewers and hot glue. I derive great joy in finding moments of whimsy and absurdity. Paper sculpture has seen me through the stresses of ‘lockdown life’ and I find in this time my work has taken some interesting new directions in terms of subject matter and setting. The more it became clear our everyday activities would be curtailed long term, the further I delved into my paper fantasy world. My work came to reflect areas of normal life, but in whimsical settings wherein anthropomorphized characters comfortably reside. It was certainly no coincidence that I had staged my escape in paper form. My own, idealized ‘new normal’! The collection presented here is from a larger series depicting the friendship between a Goose and a Girl. In ‘Bookshop’, I created a scene where the Goose is the Girl’s regular bookshop customer. Here he is picking up his book order on Inland Waterways. In