On Korigami
 

A System of Folding, Image Capture, and
Phenomenological Erosion

 

Korigami is an image-making process shaped by time, touch, and distortion. Each work begins through folding, intervening in what already exists. Focusing on a single source image transforms the static surface into a dynamic, multi-faceted object.
 

Working from one image produces a compressed field of memory that fractures inward rather than expanding through juxtaposition. The surface becomes an exploratory site where memory is embedded in structure.
The folded image is the entry point. Front, back, and overlap create multiple compositions encoded in the same material substrate. What emerges is a logic of fragmentation that is internal, recursive, and embodied.
 

Scanning formalizes the gesture. The scanner isolates a single moment in the lifespan of the folded form. Each capture becomes an improvised event and a fixed point within a choreography. Korigami functions as a phenomenological tool, emphasizing the encounter between body and surface, and between memory and erosion.
Each scan marks a decision: what to expose and what to withhold, turning the archive of folds into a living index of omissions and thresholds. Korigami evolves through repetition, degradation, and procedural constraint.
 

This finite lifecycle is essential. The physical source weakens over time. Each image exists as a temporary articulation of a vanishing form. Korigami performs the erosion of preserved memory.
Each piece is a syntax proposition born from the logic of the process itself.