Rush Hour - Pyongyang, North Korea Print Party

Rush Hour - Pyongyang, North Korea Print Party"Deep under Pyongyang, youll find subway station #4. Foreign journalist stop #7. Its presented to impress visitors with North Koreas modern commuter routine, a window onto happy daily life in the capital. Except these windows these haggard faces tell a different story. They are the frightened eyes of citizens living in one of the worlds strictest dictatorships, hoping this subway line takes them far away." Pigment ink on paper Unframed on Custom

with uncertain glances at the stranger with the camera

75 x 71 in

cameos from popular cinema

The images

I then produce monoprints by manually transferring laser prints of the images to matte translucent polyester film

a back road convenience store along the border with Myanmar

to condense the endless night sky to a few marks on an eight by ten inch piece of paper

creating a kind of spotlight effect on the orchestra (composition-orchestra) of quick and confident parallel painted brushstrokes

I used the turmeric as an unfixed dye that I applied to cast abaca paper pods

This small group

/ 38 x 38 x 5 cm each

/ 24 x 36 cm