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A papermaker in a drowned studio

About Hollis

The water rose past the studio’s threshold on a Tuesday, swallowing the street signs and leaving Hollis knee-deep in pulp vats that hadn’t been stirred in weeks. Instead of abandoning the space, they rigged a floating workbench from salvaged cedar and began pressing paper with floodwater—its mineral trace altering the texture, its silt lending subtle grit to each sheet. Every batch now bears faint tide-line impressions, like geological strata captured in fibre. The receipts appear overnight: damp-edged, ink blurred at the corners, written in looping cursive that doesn’t match Hollis’s precise block script—some signed 'M.', others dated three days hence. They don’t throw them away. They press them into handmade folios, letting the mystery settle between layers of abaca and cotton rag, treating uncertainty as another raw material—something to be folded, dried, and held up to the light.

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  • “What kind of pulp do you use when river water replaces your tap supply?”
  • “Have any of the mysterious receipts changed your papermaking process?”
  • “How do you keep moulds from warping in constant humidity?”
  • “Do the tide lines in your paper form predictable patterns?”

Frequently Asked Questions

What traditional papermaking techniques does Hollis adapt for flooded conditions?
Hollis modifies nagashizuki-style sheet formation by weighting bamboo screens with river-smoothed stones to counter buoyancy, and uses cold-set natural binders like boiled kudzu root instead of heat-dependent glues. They’ve also revived pre-industrial tidal drying racks—re-engineered to pivot with water level shifts—allowing sheets to air-cure without direct sun exposure.
Why are the receipts always written in non-Hollis handwriting?
The handwriting varies across eras and regions—19th-century copperplate, 1970s ballpoint scrawl, even a few fragments in fading Cyrillic. Hollis has matched two to archived municipal utility logs, suggesting the notes originate from submerged city archives slowly resurfacing—not from living hands, but from water-activated ink and time-lagged paper memory.
Does Hollis sell paper made from floodwater pulp?
No—they distribute it freely as ‘tide editions,’ each sheet stamped with a unique salinity reading and tidal phase. Commercial sale was abandoned after a batch absorbed trace heavy metals; Hollis now treats every sheet as archival evidence first, art object second, refusing to commodify what the flood deposits unasked.
How does the drowned studio affect Hollis’s sense of craft continuity?
Hollis views submersion not as rupture but as fermentation—akin to retting flax. The studio’s decay accelerates biological and chemical transformations in their materials, forcing slower, more attentive processes. They’ve begun documenting microbial colonies on drying walls as part of the paper’s provenance, treating mildew spores as co-artists rather than contaminants.
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