B Shawn Cox creates in the warm, soft light of pop philosophy with analog transformations of documented social and personal mythologies from nostalgic materials and icons. His role as an is artist inspired by two responsibilities—first to capture, emote and communicate an idea and then, to transform the chosen medium itself as part of the expression. Both explore the artist is a cartographer, mapping an understanding of what is while constantly calibrating and discovering the path using his own internal compass. The impetus of his current body of work is outdated paper-based information and the iconic figures and stereotypes perpetuated by popular culture and social mythologies. As both public and personal social interaction transitions to virtual, traditional tools of understanding and communication are being replaced by evolving digital technologies. The work celebrates an expression of the understanding, or at least the ability to express or understand beyond the newly archaic paper media itself.   The genesis is manifestation of a physical metaphor of a base particle of an idea, a proverbial grain of salt—the size and shape of thoughts. The creative journey develops by analysis and transforming an existing means of breaking down a conceptual thought into a base unit.  This module is the building block and construct for literal and actual paradigms, and a structured catalysis for expression. Transformation and interrelationship of dialogues further structure the expression as the medium itself inspires expression and further evolves. The geometric variations interlinking and interlocking of a variety of modular origami sonobe, from its text or printed source, each paper sonobe module captures, distills and holds a fragment of an image, visual tool, text or narrative into a uniform module linked its respective social myth. The works further aspires to resonate with a viewer's own individual, unique understanding or conception of the same. The relationship between the modules forms the basis of a new tangible and dimensional language by both referencing the old medium as a construct to layer narratives and metaphors built from these tangible visual abstractions of an idea.