After my PhD, I was left with a big stack of paper printouts—drafts upon drafts that I had saved of posters and presentation slides and journal articles and my dissertation. That stack represented so much effort, so many mistakes, and so much I had learned. Rather than burn or recycle it all, I wanted to repurpose it, especially the graphs and figures and other visual elements. I cut out whatever I found visually interesting, taking these pieces of data out of context and allowing them to be viewed and interpreted for aesthetics rather than scientific meaning. I then layered pages with cut-out areas to let fragments of text and figures peek through, forming the background for each of the works in this series.