Meg Webster combines interests in minimal abstraction, diverse materials, and the Earth’s ecology in her drawings and sculpture. She has applied soil, butter, and fragrant spices like cinnamon and turmeric to sheets of paper and has built sculpture from salt, branches, and living moss. For this piece, Webster heated and poured bleached beeswax onto a heavy paper, creating a smooth, thick surface that seems to defy gravity. The artist has said that her work is “about caring for the structure of nature.” By emphasizing the texture, color, and even the smell of the unexpected substances that she employsas media, she guides viewers to reflect simultaneously on the aesthetic, ephemeral, and generative properties of the natural world.