This spring I moved to Seattle, taking up residence in an old house with layers of patterned paper covering most of the interior. Since moving in, scraping off all those layers has been an ongoing project. This excavation process fascinated me: The wallpaper is almost 1/4" thick, pasted layer upon layer over the underlying plaster... I began carving into it selectively to create an image of a cell structure that I love, inserting something of my own in the language of the environment where I am working to make a home.