mihyun maria kim
Lovers
Mixed Media
2021
Image transfer, acrylic, ink, oil pastel, crayon, charcoal, paper rubbings layered in beeswax on wood
8 x 6"
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Memory is crystallized in images, and connected in sequences. By the physical act of rubbing to reveal an image that slowly erases, the finite qualities of the image intensify the ephemeral nature of memories. In tracing, drawing and adding colour to fill in the image, layers on top alter and bury the ones below. Sealing and preserving the remnants of an image, with its rubbed off segments in beeswax, keeps the possibilities open to future excavations. What is lost and found perpetually affects understandings and interpretations of the past, present and future.
Work by
mihyun maria kim
Interdisciplinary
“‘Han’ is a Korean word that describes a sense of one’s loss, grief or 'shared suffering'. I trace connections in transferred individual and collective memories, particularly linked with...” [More]