Carmen Romine is a fiber and material artist based in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Growing up near the country, she finds inspiration from memories of rural surroundings and the natural environment. Carmen makes abstract landscapes, handmade books, installation work and other forms of art focused on concepts of sustainability and the ephemeral beauty inherent in nature. Romine earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fiber and Material Studies from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2010. She currently works with a variety of fiber art techniques in paper and other mixed media. Her work is fabricated through heavily process-driven steps of repetition such as collecting, cutting, crumpling, piecing, gluing, and dying. The compositions range from atmospheric prints to sculptural paper weavings that become accumulative, rhythmic, drifting, and ultimately dream-like.