"A forest of fir in the middle of a city transported me to a space in which only I existed along with the tall trees that surrounded me. The diffused light that filtered through the canopies and made apparent the details of each tree, had a special quality of quietude and tranquility that I had never before experienced. I had found my place in the world, and it was here, in the quiet and slowness of nature"--Artist's website.

"Radha Pandey is a papermaker and letterpress printer. She earned her MFA in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book where she was a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship. She has studied Western and Asian Papermaking techniques with Timothy Barrett and teaches book arts classes in India and the US. Her interest in the history of papermaking led her to research creating stop-motion animations using watermarks. Her expertise also includes traditional textile hand-printing in India, and stop-motion animations in paper. Her artists books are held in 19 public collections including the Library of Congress and Yale University. Her graduate thesis work, titled 'Anatomia botanica' won the MICA Book Award at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Fair in 2014. Currently, Radha is working on an artist book that explores the perception of white"--Artist's statement from the artist's website.