“Donna Han, a second-generation Korean American, uses traditional women’s craft materials and techniques to explore dislocation, separation from self and home, and conflict between collective social expectations and individual dreams and desires. She works with found materials because they are cheap and because they help her bridge disparate worlds, and build new concepts of home by finding threads that connect the inner, outer, and under worlds. Found materials, like past experiences remembered, explains Han, are recycled debris given new life.”
By Christopher Bucklow. These photograms are made by tracing the silhouette of his model onto a large sheet of aluminum foil, pricking it with thousands of small holes, then laying a sheet of photo sensitive paper and exposing it to the sun.
