Work Sample #1

heavens have one sun; mortals have one way
天无二日，人无二理
Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture,
University of Tennessee Knoxville
multimedia
sizes variable
2023

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This installation uses handmade paper and animation to remix ancient Chinese characters, appropriated instructional materials, and diagrammatic family portraits. Through it, I re-enroll in my own early education to reconsider what it means to be a child. The character for “child” (子) appears in each word in the work, and its meaning changes with each sign it joins.

Work Sample #2

female + child = good
handmade paper (abaca and pigmented cotton), hidden collage, and animation projection
diptych: 15 × 44 inches
video: 06:47 run time (looping)
provided video documentation (excerpt): 01:18 min
2023

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Also from my thesis installation. 好, “good,” is written as a woman (女) beside a child (子). Collages of a boy and a girl are hidden between an abaca base sheet and a short-cotton blow-out, visible only when light passes through; an animation is projected across the suspended sheets. This is the layering my portfolio proposal builds on.

Work Sample #3

To Be Safe, in Two Tongues (collaboration with Yangbin Park)
handmade paper (pigmented abaca and cotton, cotton pulp paint), Joomchi, screenprint, and collage
18 × 24 inches
2025

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From a collaboration with papermaker-printmaker Yangbin Park on translation between our two languages. I made the seal script character for “safety” (安)—a woman under a roof—in handmade paper. Yangbin sewed on Joomchi paper carrying the Korean, and screenprinted a poem on hanji.

Work Sample #4

what a home is made of
handmade paper (pigmented abaca and cotton, flax pulp paint)
22 × 30 inches
2026

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家, “home,” is a pig (豕) under a roof (宀). Here, three versions of the boar character stand against four faint roof radicals, the parts of the word laid out but not yet put together.

Work Sample #5

Treasure Lid
handmade paper (pigmented abaca and cotton blend)
approx. 21.5 × 64 inches (irregular)
2026

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The entrance piece of my solo exhibition safer than words (Longwood University, 2026) is 宀, the Chinese roof radical, made in red handmade paper. It is not a word on its own, but nearly every character it tops has to do with shelter, such as “safety,” “home,” and “room.”

Work Sample #6

Edges Left Open
handmade paper (pigmented cotton and abaca blend, cotton, abaca, and flax pulp paint)
126 × 69 inches (twelve panels, tiled)
2026

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The largest piece from a period when my stencils, first cut to form Chinese characters, had stopped carrying words and become shapes. It wasn't planned as a twelve-sheet image. I formed four sheets, tiled them, and worked the seams with pulp paint, leaving open the edges that would meet paper I hadn't made yet. Then I added sheets until there were twelve.