On a trip to Japan, I discovered that older Japanese people would make pilgrimages to Buddhist temples and collect stamps and calligraphy in an accordion book.  I scanned these images and printed them onto printer-friendly Asian paper and combined them with mulberry paper using Joomchi. One of the stamps is inadvertently upside down, capturing the spiritual disorientation that occurs when seeking.

Pilgrimage

Scanned temple stamp & calligraphy, mulberry paper, Joomchi, thread, cotton tassels, 29.5x69.5x1 in, 2023


Pilgrimage

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