Artist Book series
Artist Books
Handmade narratives of life, women’s stories, and daily memories by Jaclyn Bae
Artist Book I — Seasons of Human Life
Collaged seasons and shifting silhouettes of a life.
Seasons of Human Life explores how a single life moves through changing emotional and physical seasons. Pages are built from collaged magazine papers in shifting colors and textures, suggesting spring, summer, autumn, and winter. On the facing pages, silhouettes of human figures echo these transitions — growing, bending, pausing, and moving forward again.
The book reads like a quiet visual diary: the outer seasons of nature and the inner seasons of the heart layered together, one spread at a time.
Materials: magazine collage, mixed media · Artist: Jaclyn Bae
Artist Book II — The Seasons
A continuous accordion of woodblock-printed time.
The Seasons is a handmade accordion book printed with woodblocks on fabric and rice paper. When fully opened, the book becomes a single flowing strip — like a path you can walk with your eyes. Each impression carries traces of growth, memory, and quiet change, moving from one end of the book to the other.
The work invites the viewer to read time not as separate moments, but as one continuous rhythm of becoming.
Technique: woodblock print on fabric and rice paper · Artist: Jaclyn Bae
Artist Book III — Life of Women
A quiet archive of women’s shared experiences.
Life of Women is a narrative artist book composed of personal photographs — from childhood to marriage, motherhood, and aging. Though rooted in the artist’s own story, the work opens onto a broader landscape of women’s lives: growing up, loving, raising children, and facing time.
The images are transferred with blender marker onto Korean and Japanese papers, then framed within a rice-roll mat structure. The format recalls family albums and scrolls, holding fragments of memory that feel both intimate and universal.
Materials: photo transfer, Korean & Japanese paper, rice-roll mat · Artist: Jaclyn Bae
Artist Book IV — My Daily Life
Hand-stitched moments rolled into a private ledger.
My Daily Life gathers small scenes from everyday routine — stitched by hand onto momigami paper. The pages are rolled and stored in a rice-roll mat, as if keeping a personal ledger of ordinary days. Colored threads weave through empty spaces, suggesting invisible ties with family, home, and memory.
The book reads slowly. Each stitched line feels like a quiet note, written not with ink but with time and patience.
Materials: momigami paper, hand-stitching, rice-roll mat · Artist: Jaclyn Bae
Related Work — Hanbok Series
From the sculptural intimacy of artist books to the cultural form of the hanbok, the Hanbok Series extends these narratives into garments made of linen, hemp, and denim — exploring heritage, memory, and transformation.
© Jaclyn Bae 2025 · All rights reserved
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