I just got back from Kansas, where I was visiting our wood + paper + box exhibition with my friends and collaborators Yoonmi Nam and Katie Baldwin.
It was amazing to see the large banner showing our work on the side of the museum. I really felt proud of what we’ve achieved with this project!
Our four boxes have been displayed beautifully - each in its own specially made wooden cabinet.
The works are shown in a changing display, in a variety of ways, just as we had always intended them to be…
The museum also produced a brochure, explaining the work that had been specially commissioned. Our fourth box Mise-en-Scene, made in a limited edition, is the Museum’s Gift Print for 2023.
The first cabinet in the exhibition shows this box and all the elements within it.
We gave a presentation with the curator of the show Aileen Wang, in which we discussed how we met and started our projects, and what the future may hold. We invited everyone to come and try out the handling copy of the Mise-en-Scene box.
I loved that Aileen used some of my zoom sketches for our profiles in the show! Here’s the handling copy on display for all visitors to the exhibition to try out for themselves. They can upload their photos of the arrangements they make to instagram with the hashtag #woodpaperbox and become part of our ongoing artwork.
When I think about it, we started wood + paper + box as a way to keep in touch and keep our friendship going, and it has grown to become a really important part of my life. I treasure the connections and experiences we’ve shared as we’ve continued to develop these projects together.
From one experimental box of prints, we’ve now become an established collective, and I’m already looking forward to working on our next box together.
