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The Balance of Theme and Form in Contemporary Art

I've always said that I'm an idea space artist even though having a studio practice is so important to me but the ideas are really what anchor me. And I think one of the interesting ways that that manifests itself in the work is through this balance of theme and form like for instance you might reference Korean textile traditions whilst also illustrating a very very deep story from the culture of Korea. So there's all these sort of interesting correspondences in their way between theme and form or subject matter and form can you say something more about that? Yeah I guesslike I think more recently I've really been using kind of the structure of folk tales or children's stories or speculative fiction as a kind of skeleton

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