Steph Rue, Radha Pandey, and I have been working for the past few months on a project for the upcoming Hand Papermaking Portfolio Series. These portfolios, which are published every two years and feature works by paper artists around the world, often have a theme that unites the selected pieces. In the past, these have included themes such as “Handmade Paper in Motion,” “The Art of Pulp Painting,” “Watermarks in Handmade Paper: Modern and Historic,” and others. The theme for this portfolio, which is set to publish in late 2014, is “Negative Space.”