Another wonderful workshop today with a new group of Koreans, this time mostly local folks from Sacramento.
Some especially magical moments during today's workshop:
One participant spent the majority of the time working on a piece of dak lace which she embedded into a sheet made with dyed pulp in the deckle box. She spent a long time working on this sheet! Can't wait to see how it turns out once it is dry.
Two members of the Korean American Artist Collective joined today's workshop. One member came all the way from DC, while the other came from SF with her mom. Fostering this community of Korean American artists has been a project near and dear to my heart, though mostly the community building has taken place virtually. It was very special to be together in person.
I tried two new things for today's workshop: one was a new webal screen (that I purchased on Amazon) and the other was dyed pulp (which I wrote about in the previous post).
The Amazon screen was a fail - the pulp did not settle on the screen evenly, and I could not couch (transfer the sheet off the screen) consistently. I will write more about the Amazon screen in a separate future post. because it is turning into a SAGA.
As for the dyed pulp, it was great! I'm looking forward to experimenting with more dyes and coloring pulp again for the next workshop.
Though my mom was supposed to translate portions of the workshop into Korean and had spent a long time preparing notes, she sort of bailed at the last minute. Ironically during the sharing time towards the end, one participant shared in Korean and I wondered if we needed somebody to translate into English. Though my Korean is not great (see previous post), I knew enough to recognize some key words like 그리움 (longing) and 사랑 (love).
On that note, here is another survey response that resonated with me. The question was, “Do you have an object, food, song, memory, word, something that is meaningful to you that connects you to your Korean heritage?”
