About Jimiyo

I work primarily in cardboard sculpture, with a current focus on animal busts and wall-based forms. By layering, shaping, and finishing the material by hand, I use cardboard to push something familiar and overlooked into a more sculptural territory.

I’m drawn to cardboard because it has both structure and texture, but also because it never fully hides what it is. It carries its own material history. I like that tension between the ordinary nature of the material and the stronger visual presence it can take on when built into form.

Animal forms keep returning in my work because they offer silhouette, personality, and presence. They give me a way to think through character, surface, pattern, and shape while making pieces that can function as both art objects and focal points within a space.

My broader creative history includes other mediums, but sculpture is where my newer explorations have led. Recent work will be featured in a June exhibit at Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association.