Sculpting with wire is another way of painting in 3 dimensions, compressing and stretching the wire to become an undulating surface that conveys a sense of change and becoming. Mountains form in the action of tectonic plates, and they erode in the relentless presence of weather. The Highlands struck me as human-scaled mountains that I could physically relate to, touch, and hold—actions imitated in the application of liquid paper pulp and later of heated encaustic paint.