The relationship between material, memory, and mending grounds my current practice. In Recollections, I construct original works using hanji, gesso, graphite, silk, and watercolor paper. These originals are then cut-up, reconfigured and repaired. As I mend torn fragments from the original with hanji, new forms and seams emerge - physical expressions of continuous, recursive making.
These reassembled drawings explore the disparate histories of hanji, handmade mulberry paper from Korea. While hanji was traditionally used for making doors, screens, lanterns and other everyday objects, in the West hanji serves to repair and mask damaged manuscripts.
Inspired by shapes and colors from Korean folk arts, Buddhist temples, and scroll paintings, my large-scale pieces gesture towards the excavation and preservation of embedded, or inherited, histories and memories.
Drawing Water, hanji, graphite, silk, watercolor paper, approx. 85 x 110 inches
Mountain Walk (Memory of a Buddhist Temple), hanji, graphite, mixed media paper, 75 x 92 inches
Untitled, hanji, silk, graphite, mixed media paper, mineral paint, 46 x 90 inches
Boney Wing, hanji, silk, mixed media paper, graphite, 85 x 98 inches (installation view)
Votive I, hanji, graphite, silk, gesso, mixed media paper, mineral paint, 81 x 48 inches
Night-Sea I, hanji, graphite, silk, watercolor paper, 57.5 x 75 inches
Installation view. Recollections, 2022