STX-SYS
Korigami is a body of work that reimagines collage through a system of folding, scanning, and reproduction.
Composition emerges from a single printed image source, being physically altered and digitally captured at a moment of structural tension. The results are records of improvised moments of pressured gesture, and memory in flux.
While prioritizing the process, the korigami system creates many forms of finality, and seeks to broaden the definitions of collage, photography and choreography by asking how images can hold time, touch, and collapse.
ON KORIGAMI
At the center of my practice is Korigami, a form of collage made through folding rather than cutting. I treat the folded printed images as temporary sculptures that are photographically captured by a scanner, then digitally adjusted and reprinted. The fold/scan process repeats using the same image source until the physical material of the image begins to collapse.
Korigami rethinks the logic of collage. Where collage often assembles many sources into one composition, Korigami develops many compositions from a single source.
The fold, as both a formal approach and conceptual tool, compresses time and information, transforming each composition into a site where commercial messaging and memory become indistinguishable.
I seek to recover the emotional pressure held inside imagery that has outlived the purpose it once served. I’m interested in the residue of expired persuasion and how it becomes entangled with self-perception and identity.