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      Drop-in Art Making

      Korean Paper Accessories with Jongkuk Lee

      Workshop guests lift up Korean paper accessories

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      In-person
      Location: Create Space Studios

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      Make accessories using traditional Korean hanji paper!

      Learn about the beauty and practicality of Korean hanji and its creative potential as naturally sourced, sustainable and recyclable material with artist Jongkuk Lee.

      About our collaborator 

      Jongkuk Lee
      Jongkuk Lee

      Jongkuk Lee, the current head of Mabuel Gallery, creates hanji (Korean paper) artworks from his home-grown paper mulberry trees. He also utilizes other natural materials, such as bamboo and silvergrass, to talk about the environment. In the late 1990s, he settled in Bulat Village, a town in Cheongju, South Korea famous for its hanji, and has been carrying on the tradition of hanji making ever since. Since the late 1970s, Bulat Village has been losing its tradition as the demand for hanji has decreased due to urbanization and industrial development, but since he moved there, the village has revitalized once again. What fascinates him about hanji is that the process of making it and the paper itself resembles nature. He believes that in order to get to know an object, whether in nature or in a social context, you need to spend enough time with it, observe it and slowly immerse yourself in it: The process of growing trees, peeling and soaking them to make hanji echoes a symbiosis that encompasses all of nature, including human beings.

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