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Glen Kaufman
For 14 years, from 1984, Glen Kaufman
spent half of each year in Kyoto, leading a
study-abroad program for the University
of Georgia and doing his own work. There
he developed a complicated technique that
combined twill weaving a surface pattern
in silk, composing collages of photo imag-
ery, photo-silk-screening those onto cloth,
and abstracting the imagery further by ap-
plying metal leaf. The completed paper
images were ripped apart and reassembled
with obvious cracks moving through the
works. The resulting views were often ar-
chitectural, incorporating a grid that recalls
Eastern shoji screens or Western window-
panes. The series, entitled Endangered
Cities (Reading Between the Lines), was
Kaufman’s effort to bring some attention
to the destruction of the traditional, tile-
roofed domestic architecture in Kyoto and
Seoul that he had frequently photographed
for use in his work over the years.
015, 016, 030, 031gk Endangered Cities - Fracture I-IV
woven cotton twill, silver leaf, screen print, impressed metal leaf
27.25” x 27.25” x 2.5”, 1996
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