To Become by Maria Nurminen
![four organic shaped works hung on a white wall](/sites/g/files/flghsv161/files/styles/1_6_567w_354h_n/public/2022-01/_FGD4754.jpg?h=1c1b1673&itok=G20T_IQl)
Change is simultaneously linear and cyclical. This constant change happens everywhere around us, but also within us. All matter – living and non-living – slowly fluctuates in an eternal process of becoming, never returning quite how it once used to be.
Paper, as a material, captures the spirit of transformation in how it was made, and when we use paper it changes again; it becomes a book, an origami, a piece of trash. By experimenting with various materials and turning them into paper-like objects I try to gain understanding of the eternal flux of matter and the cyclical processes of becoming.
![a paper like organic shaped sculpture on a white surface](/sites/g/files/flghsv161/files/styles/o_914w_ah_n_nu/public/2022-01/_FGD4757.jpg?itok=nPx275_x)
![paper like organic shaped sculpture on a white surface](/sites/g/files/flghsv161/files/styles/o_914w_ah_n_nu/public/2022-01/_FGD4760.jpg?itok=pMT0oVl-)
![paper like organic shaped sculpture on a white surface](/sites/g/files/flghsv161/files/styles/o_914w_ah_n_nu/public/2022-01/_FGD4763.jpg?itok=N2sktT0X)
![paper like organic shaped sculpture on a white surface](/sites/g/files/flghsv161/files/styles/o_914w_ah_n_nu/public/2022-01/_FGD4765.jpg?itok=5FuQw4Ll)
![three paper like sculptures hung on a white wall](/sites/g/files/flghsv161/files/styles/o_914w_ah_n_nu/public/2022-01/_FGD4767.jpg?itok=Smpnf34x)
Materials: Paper, zucchini, onion, plastic, leaves, pine needles, steel, copper