Ngo Dinh Bao Chau
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organs of the inifinite #12
In organs of the infinite, Bao Chau uses trúc chỉ to develop a new image-making technique that combines paper- and printmaking, layering the material’s fibrous pulp onto stretches of silk. Placing stencils over the slurry of cornsilk, duckweed, and bamboo, she washes away trúc chỉ’s loose weave to make image, shadow, and negative space. Her fabric–skins float and dip at will, relying on a fixed structure that contains and separates the body from the world. Light filters through silk and the trúc chỉ, like moss, grafts onto the fabric–skins – no longer a protective barrier but a permeable, receptive one.