Two Artworks · Two Winning Bidders · One Artwork per Winner

Explore the transformative power of reinvention through the work of Brooklyn-based artist Michele Bonds. Two original carved paper and mixed-media works on canvas—Becoming No. 8 and Becoming No. 11—are available in this auction.

There will be two winning bidders, each receiving one original artwork. The two pieces will go to different winners; neither winning bid includes both works.

Becoming No. 8
Carved paper and mixed media on canvas

Built through layers of paper that are cut, disrupted and revealed, Becoming No. 8 considers reinvention as an act of emergence. Fragments of what came before remain visible even as new forms take shape. The work embraces the idea that transformation does not require erasing our histories. We carry them forward, altered, reassembled and made into something new.

Becoming No. 11
Carved paper and mixed media on canvas

In Becoming No. 11, fragmentation gives way to unexpected order. Marks, ruptures and flashes of color move across the surface, creating a visual record of change in progress. The work explores reinvention as something dynamic rather than resolved—a continual process of breaking apart, choosing again and discovering new possibilities within what remains.

Two expressions of becoming. One original artwork for each winning bidder.