JUDITH KRUGER

Terrain Studies-Edo Papers: A repurposing of embodied, elusive histories.

This series is made from silver leafed book pages dated Edo period Japan (1603-1868) found at a Kyoto auction. They were originally made to conserve byobu, folding screens. My intention was to mount them as a foundation for a series of paintings, yet, when held, they fell apart. I proceeded by piecing fragments back together: an act of simultaneous creation and mending. The works were finished with delicately painted areas of walnut and rapeseed ink. The fragility of a found matrix, with its own embedded history and natural weathering set up a foundation for ambiguous meaning. To date I have shown the work as a collection, together. They, as a group, form their own landscape and speak to each other.