Each of Jaq Belcher’s works starts with a fresh sheet of paper on which the artist meticulously plots her designs in fine pencil lines. Methodically and meditatively, she cuts into the paper with fine X-Acto blades to produce her work’s characteristic ‘seeds’: small oval forms sliced from the surrounding paper that the artist will often leave attached along one edge. Belcher ultimately ‘lifts’ these attached seeds, elevating the unattached edge from the surface of the paper so that the complex gridded and spiraling geometries of her designs gradually reveal themselves. Beginning in plotting and geometry, the artist’s work ultimately unfolds outward into materiality and presence.