"The Grand River's Journey" is one of a series of drawings created this summer and reflects my interest in the bodies of water that surrounded me while I was growing up in Michigan. Inspired by the childhood memory of cutting a design into paper to create a lantern and "Origami Architecture", a 2001 show at the American Craft Museum, I used an exacto knife to make marks on 140 lb. paper. The marks are based on the geography of the water, water patterns, as well as geographic and community landmarks. I combined these marks with Native American creation myths, fables and my personal stories to suggest a threshold from simple documentation to a place full of metaphor and fantasy.