Wrapped in Hanji by Aimee Lee
The word "hanji" means Korean paper, which is made from plants with strong fibers, using a unique formation, not used by any other country. Amy Lee is the premier researcher and practitioner of hanji in the English-speaking world, having established the first American hanji studio in 2010 in Cleveland, Ohio.
In this exhibit, she makes hanji and transforms it with ancient Korean techniques to create a body of paper dress. These methods include joomchi to texture and fuse paper, encouraging it to behave like fabric, natural dyeing with plants and insects to yield environmentally-friendly colors, and jiseung—a way of twisting strips of paper into string and cords. Rather than making clothing to wear, she evokes bodies, movement, and stories that might be told by these paper garments through scale that ranges from life-sized to doll-sized.
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