Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice employs a technically complex combination of handmade kozo papers, fiber reactive dyes, and joomchi felting — a Korean technique in which sheets of mulberry-based paper are wet, layered, and manipulated through friction and pressure until the fibers interlock into a fabric-like unified material. The process produces surfaces with the structural quality of textile while retaining the translucency and fiber directionality of handmade paper. Fiber reactive dyes, typically used on cellulose fibers in textile work, bond directly to the kozo's mulberry-based cellulose, yielding saturated, light-fast color passages integrated into the sheet rather than sitting on its surface. The solstice subject provides a thematic frame for these processes of compression, union, and transformation in darkness.