Jane Ingram Allen is an American artist who has been in Taiwan since January 2004 when she came here with a Fulbright Scholar Award. Her indoor and outdoor sculpture installations with handmade paper have been exhibited in many places in Taiwan and the USA as well as other countries. Jane has been an artist in residence at the Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts from Nov. 26 – Dec. 16, 2007. Her residency project titled “Still Water” is focused on the growing problem throughout the world of having enough clean water for humans and other life. This work also brings attention to the increasing use of plastic water bottles and the problems of plastic waste in our oceans and the environment. Jane has worked with TNUA art students to create a collaborative large-scale installation using handmade paper from renewable plant resources that will feature handmade paper castings of many plastic water bottles. The paper castings of the water bottles are each unique in form, color and texture. The paper pulp has seeds for wildflowers in it so that the artwork can be recycled and come back as living plants after exhibiting in different parts of the world. Over time the seeds in the paper pulp will sprout and grow to produce a living blooming image of wildflowers and provide nourishment and natural habitat for insects, birds and butterflies.