Angela Sung
Untitled, 2026
Hand-drawn lithograph and charcoal on tea-dyed rice paper
97.5cm x 233cm
Artist statement
This work presents a composite landscape of mountains, water, and trees inspired by sansuhwa (산수화); traditional Korean landscape painting, in which nature is a site of contemplation rather than scenery. The scale is designed to dwarf the viewer. Central to the work is wayou (와유; 卧游) – meditative travel through a painted landscape – the repeating image across four joined sheets renders nature as continuous and cyclical, inviting the viewer to journey through rather than observe.
For me, this is an act of reconnection. The experience of existing between two cultures, belonging fully to neither, is one many in the diaspora quietly carry. The rice paper, tea-dyeing, and scroll format are gestures of reaching toward something that has always been mine.
Photographs: Anna Kucera
Acknowledgement of Country
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