man.u.fac.ture (5/10), 2022

Part of a series of 10 linoleum cut prints (oil printing ink) Featured in Asia North 2023 in Baltimore in the “TRANSition / TRANSformation / TRANScendence” exhibition The physical world is a repository of images and symbols. Some have sharp edg...

Part of a series of 10 linoleum cut prints (oil printing ink) Featured in Asia North 2023 in Baltimore in the “TRANSition / TRANSformation / TRANScendence” exhibition The physical world is a repository of images and symbols. Some have sharp edges or defined lines; others have been eroded or fragmented over time into soft shapes and colors. I am excavating these fragments that have become fossils, frozen in time and present in our domestic space. Fossils are the physical resurgence of the past, opening a pathway into an era that is lost to us. We perceive them as something solid, an object. However, they are still an imprint—a representation of the past, not the past itself. They transcend their materiality and acquire a unique Presentness, becoming tools of necromancy. I find myself interested in the physicality of domestic objects and their tactile qualities. I perceive them as windows through which we can consider the relationship between what we see and what we know.