The following works - Boat, Paper Cup and Camellia - belong to a series titled Mountains and Valleys. The terms "mountains" and "valleys" refer not only to topographic descriptions of landscape, but also to two of the basic folds in origami: "mountain" folds and "valley" folds.Mountains and Valleys explores the idea that we move through a mysterious world without ever fully knowing its true shape.
Boat from the Mountains and Valleys series
2015
Pencil, polycarbonate
60 x 60 cm
Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire
Paper Cup from the Mountains and Valleys series
2015
Pencil, polycarbonate
60 x 60 cm
Camellia from the Mountains and Valleys series
2015
Pencil, polycarbonate
60 x 60 cm
Unfolding Cosmos
2015
Polycarbonate
200 x 200 × 0.05cm
I recreated the folding patterns of 25 classic origami shapes - animals, flowers, objects, etc, and then integrate them into a seamless whole. The result is a terrain of lines where boundaries blur and one existence connects with another.
Sunny Days and Starry nights
2023
Video
Duration: 1 minute and 13 seconds (no sound)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jilLvR2ocWc
Celestial symbols are featured in many national flags despite having little in common with the vastness of the universe. I have arranged the national flags of every country based on the latitude and longitude of their respective capitals. The bordered world versus the boundless universe.