Kyoung Ae Cho: The Shape and Color of Research

 
In "Landscape," I wanted to capture the feeling that I had when I opened Hough's Encyclopaedia for the first time. To enhance (emphasize) the wood grains I applied burn marks celebrating the life of wood. Those burn-marked and pieced-wood elements are captured in between double layers of silk organza by hand stitches. These stitched grids reflect a system referencing a sort of topographical map that we might use to understand nature. The juxtaposition of the grids, organic wood grain, and moir� pattern which were created by doubling the silk organza, also reference the rhythm and harmony between the order and the chaos in nature, which I am very interested in.

Cho, Landscape 1

Landscape I.
Wood, burn marks, silk organza, thread.
14" x 30".

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