JuPong’s workshop is part of a socially-engaged art project that revitalizes earth-centered traditions for resilient futures. The workshop opens with a guided meditation on joss paper—the plants, minerals and human labor that created the paper. Joss paper in Taoist traditions is traditionally burned as part of ceremonies to honor ancestors. Also called spirit money or hell money, the bamboo paper is folded in half or into the shape of a gold ingot, and then burned, along with other paper objects. Burning the paper transfers the value to the ancestors realm where they re-materialize. JuPong will teach participants how to fold cranes and canoes, invoking the cultural somatic memory of paperfolding craft. Participants can contribute the folded objects to JuPong’s art installation, Poetics of Repair: Returning to Earth, scheduled for exhibition in April 2021 at the Augusta Savage Gallery. The paper will be burned in honor of our most ancient ancestor, the Earth herself.
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