Every day is a new beginning if you really think about it. Every day offers me the chance to experience something new and exciting, if I'm open to it.

Something about January feels full of promise. Even though it's bitter cold and everything seems dead and frozen, spring, new growth and possibilities are beginning to creep in with the expanding daylight.

Something about the newness of the year makes me want to clear the clutter from every corner and make room for something new to enter into my life.

I made this newspaper dress about four years ago in my sculpture class. It sat on a shelf in the garage gathering dust until today, a beautiful, still winter's day. The fire pit bulged with leaves and kindling raked in last week's abnormally warm temperatures. This dress begged to become my first installation piece.

I love the work of Andy Goldsworthy, Christo, and Chihuly not just because of the beauty of what they create, but because of how their pieces change from minute to minute into something else.

I took almost 100 photographs of this dress burning. Here are just a few of the images.