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In my work, I commonly create fictional stories with loose narratives, female protagonists and anthropomorphic imagery. Images of nature are romanticized, time and space are flattened and the mood is usually dreamy or whimsical. My work depicts snippets of imagined conversations, utopia and the possibility of a self-sufficient world.Occasionally, I create installations that involve other mediums such as sculpture or video, but the majority of my work is two-dimensional and designed, graphically, to emphasize the “flatness” of paper. The variety of materials I most often use include watercolors, acrylics, graphite, ink, fabric and exacto blades to hand cut paper. |
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Saelee Oh
In my work, I commonly create fictional stories with loose narratives, female protagonists and anthropomorphic imagery. Images of nature are romanticized, time and space are flattened and the mood is usually dreamy or whimsical. My work depicts snippets of imagined conversations, utopia and the possibility of a self-sufficient world.
Occasionally, I create installations that involve other mediums such as sculpture or video, but the majority of my work is two-dimensional and designed, graphically, to emphasize the “flatness” of paper. The variety of materials I most often use include watercolors, acrylics, graphite, ink, fabric and exacto blades to hand cut paper. On occasion, all these materials are combined in one piece, but in others only one material is selected to stand alone.
My interests directly influence my work, such as traditional folk arts like Chinese paper cutting, Victorian paper silhouettes, miniature Persian paintings, vintage children’s storybooks, organic forms, repetitive patterns, biology and traditional female arts like crafts and sewing. Improvised compositions and a spontaneous creative process are priorities for me, even though my mark making is usually very meticulously detailed and precise.
