Soft Tending, 2025
스며드는 힘
Handmade paper, water, sunlight, mold, gelatin11 x 44 x 20 inches
Photo credit: Paloma Dooley
Like tending a small garden, the daily act of spraying and drying softens the paper to the form beneath it. With each exposure, it yields a little more, as I tend to it and to myself.
(Diary supplement)
I speak to the paper as it softens.
I thank it for holding me.
It absorbs what I cannot say, yielding, weakening, staying.
As it changes, I do too—learning how care moves both ways.
I thank it for holding me.
It absorbs what I cannot say, yielding, weakening, staying.
As it changes, I do too—learning how care moves both ways.
Thirty Days of Tending