2022

Yarn, felt, wood, string, gouache, colored pencils, and letterpress type on handmade paper

6.5" diameter, 5" height

Text:

every meal comes with watchful and curious eyes,

imbedded with wrinkles of stories long forgotten.

and as i take my first bite,

i look into her eyes

and i wonder

if she remembers being loved.

Exhibited in: Did you eat yet?

Silkscreen printed accordion book.

Select spreads of collage, block print, drawing and painting on handmade paper bound together as a continuously looping story book.

Story is based on my personal relationship with my father and how I view parent-child relationships.

PDF of pages can be found here.

Felt, embroidery, polyfil, cardstock paper, paint marker

7” x 24”

Tiger accordion book with poly-fil stuffed felt embroidered covers

Embroidered clamshell box holding single signature book made using handmade recycled paper, tea bags, letter stamps, and monoprints.

Clamshell box: 3” x 3 ¾” x 1”

Book: 2” x 3”

Text is an excerpt from Yu Chihwan’s poem “Life”:

In a single grain of sand

Rests the whole universe,

And in a single star twinkling

The vicissitude of a millennium.

In the boundless universe,

O this infinitesimal life of mine!

But as a being so infinitesimal,

How light-hearted I can be!