The form and the content of Self Portrait/One Plus One together accentuate the concept of the generative matrix and that of the multiple: not only in papermaking, but also in how life begins.

Each of the 23 pages of the Japanese-bound book had portraits of my mom and my dad blown into it as watermarks during sheet-forming, before being folded and bound. Varying both the sequence and the orientation of the portraits, each page is a unique fusion of my parents, such is each pair of my chromosomes.

The end product is a representation of the genetic makeup of me as a zygote, one that would multiply to become who I am today.