Online Presentation with Book Arts Guild
October 3, 2024
7pm-8pm
Free and open to the public
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In one innocuous moment, the ground can shift beneath you and you realize the story is entirely something else. This was Yuka’s experience as a first generation Japanese-American pushing past the silence of previous generations and seeking family connections across the Pacific. Then it happened again while developing new work in response to the failures and potential revealed by finding those relatives.
In this talk, Yuka will discuss her new site-specific installation, The Reality You Were Part of Wasn’t the Reality You Knew, on view at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts’ Outlook Gallery. She will share the stories of those sudden, transitional moments, and the deep significance of the handmade paper and processes involved in making this piece that confronts sustained and broken connections to an ancestral homeland.
