Research Festival Final Plan:
For the Research Festival, I plan to develop an artist book that brings together my photographs, sketches, and small paintings. My practice already begins with collecting — I document daily moments through photos, quick drawings, and fragments of writing. These materials often form the foundation of my paintings, so creating an artist book feels like a natural extension of my process. I was inspired by Peter Doig’s artist book, which combines photographs with reproductions of his paintings. I like how this format reveals the space between lived experience and the painted image — between what is seen and what is remembered. My book will explore that same in-between space. It will weave together intimate images of daily life — my home, my partner, my pets, and domestic corners.
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I decided to use a tissue box as the format for my artist book. Tissues are everywhere in our daily life — we basically can’t live without them. I haven’t seen anyone use this form before, which makes it feel fresh and personal. I bought a transparent tissue box and plan to print my paintings and photos onto thin canvas. Based on my experiments, I’ll use transfer glue for this process: first printing my images on A4 paper, cutting them out, and then transferring them onto the canvas.
After that, I have two possible directions. Plan A is to let visitors take one “tissue” — it would feel like a small gift to the audience, though I’ll need to consider accessibility and maintenance. Plan B is to connect each “tissue” into one long strip, so it becomes more like a continuous book. But I’m not sure if people will be able to pull it out and put it back properly. That’s something I’ll need to test and think about later.
