Richland County Library Exhibition

Today I delivered my half of the drawings and paintings for our upcoming exhibition, Transformations and Translations: The Art of Una Kim and Janet Kozachek.  The exhibition opens on January 7 at the Richland County Library.  Click on the Exhibitions button at left for more details.
The largest work in the show will be my acrylic and paper collage on canvas, A Dance of Heaven and Earth: From Inside to Outside and from Above to Below.
 In keeping with the bilingual theme, the composition is interspersed with Chinese characters written in various styles, all referring to the title.  The hidden characters are: inside:  内
 outside: 外 outside is written in a style called "grass," which is a lively cursive script.
above: 上 Is written in bold, regular script called "kai"  as is the character for below: 下

 heaven: 天  is written in an ancient form called "seal script," which is somewhat pictographic.

The earth, 土 is even more ancient in form and refers to a shrine to the earth.  Follow the central dancer's gaze downward to see it:

Finally, the dance：舞  This character was originally printed on to the paper from a stone seal that I had carved but the print did not take well and I ended up touching it up a bit with paint.  This is also the ancient form of the character.