'Unfolding,' 2018
These works investigate ‘folding’ as a method and as a concept. The fold here acts like a resist similar to fabric tie-dye method. At the beginning, the folded paper is immersed in cold water bath. The exterior of the fold is then painted with water colour. This allows the interior of the fold to absorb the paint, leaving only deeper layers unstained. The result can only be seen at the end of the process when the paper is unfolded, revealing pattern of colour and negative space. Folding allows multiple new surfaces to emerge in compressed space and time which challenges the limitation of binary structures and categories. It creates new kinds of subjectivity and shows that the inside is nothing more than a fold of the outside once revealed.
(water colour on Hahnemühle Sumi e-paper, 80g/m2, Size: 400x300mm (hxw) each.
These works investigate ‘folding’ as a method and as a concept. The fold here acts like a resist similar to fabric tie-dye method. At the beginning, the folded paper is immersed in cold water bath. The exterior of the fold is then painted with water colour. This allows the interior of the fold to absorb the paint, leaving only deeper layers unstained. The result can only be seen at the end of the process when the paper is unfolded, revealing pattern of colour and negative space. Folding allows multiple new surfaces to emerge in compressed space and time which challenges the limitation of binary structures and categories. It creates new kinds of subjectivity and shows that the inside is nothing more than a fold of the outside once revealed.
(water colour on Hahnemühle Sumi e-paper, 80g/m2, Size: 400x300mm (hxw) each.
