Paper and Paper Craft Traditions
Making, learning, and teaching inspire connections that transcend language and facilitate deeper understandings of individuals, cultures, and traditions. While traveling abroad in South Korea, Japan, India, Italy, South Africa, and Mexico, I have gained knowledge of traditional and ancient printmaking, book arts, and paper craft techniques through shadowing master artisans. Through these experiences and cultivating lasting relationships, I strive to integrate unique applications of ancient practices to serve as an ambassador, teacher, archivist, advocate, and innovator.
In South Korea, I continue to study Hanji (hand-made mulberry paper) and its applications. This incredible paper (and its variations) is often described to last over 1,000 years. I am inspired by its strength and cultural significance in scholarly, artistic, utilitarian, and conservation practices; therefore, use it to sketch, print, revisit, archive, and pay tribute to the spirited life of mentors, masters, and community leaders. I actively reimagine their workshops, tools, and surroundings by reverently rendering, printing, and reconstructing observations and memories, further transforming them into structural, architectural, and often meandering visual arrangements that transcend place and time.
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Asia and Rice exhibited from August 12 -20, 2015 at the Jeonbuk Art Center in the Republic of Korea. The Center published an 86-page catalogue that showcased works by 85 artists who created work about meaning of “rice” in Asia. My contribution referenced urbanization through ephemeral structures in despair. The installation included approximately 50 structures, screenprinted on Hanji paper.
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New Hanji: American Perspectives, curated by Chelsea Holton, exhibited May 19 - 25, 2017 at the Jeonju, Republic of Korea. The published a 40-page catalogue that included 6 artists working with Hanji.
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