Ann Hamilton began her residency at Dieu Donné, a workspace program in New York City, with a unique approach to the exploration of handmade paper. Informed by her initial training in textile design, and later an MFA in sculpture at Yale, Hamilton developed a practice focused on the relationships between tactile and linguistic experience in objects, performances, videos, and large-scale ephemeral installations. Exploring
both visual and verbal forms of apprehension and cognition, her work responds to the sensory knowledge of a body, a specific architectural condition, and the social contexts in which they occur.

Hamilton's work in the Dieu Donné papermaking studio began by creating a series of geometric paper forms with embedded si...