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Episode 1: Have you ever crumpled paper just right, or covered a sheet from edge to edge with graphite, or,otherwise, protected a clean page from damage at all costs? Rachel Bacon has, and from the sound of it, she'llcontinue doing so. She's been experimenting with materials for decades, and she's gotten it down to a science \u2013 thescience of paper and pencil, trees and graphite, wood and carbon, pulp and powder. Just like diamonds and coalboth come from carbon, and folklore spins yarns of devils shitting gold or turning gold into shit, Rachel's drawings actout allotropic roles. They're unique works that play with our perceptions of reality and confront us with lightness anddark, weight and scale, and encourage us to take responsibility for the materials we exploit. Her drawings operate onsubliminal and individual levels and position us as guests on a planet that allows us to inhabit it for now. She wasborn in NYC and moved to the Netherlands where she teaches drawing at the Royal Academy of Artlives in TheHague. In addition to The Netherlands and the United States, she has had exhibitions in France, the United Kingdom,The Czech Republic, Turkey, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden.