Thousand Tongues
Artist’s own hair, used fruit mesh bag, recycled cellophane sheet, clay stain, Korean ink on Hanji( Korean mulberry paper), inner garment, acrylic paint, thread, used book pages, gel medium, charcoal, graphite, yarn, found wood, orange packaging, inkjet ink mono print, used paper shopping bag, alcohol ink, watercolor, pastel, Sackdong-cheon( Korean traditional colored striped fabric), watercolor paper, used sweater, fruits sticker, glaze, dehydrated lemon slice, acrylic skin, white gesso, potato packaging, resin, discarded T-shirts, water, oil, slipper mark, wood glue, black sketchbook, sea moss skin, found feather, masking tape, onion skin, thread label, gel medium, metal wire, found silk, used necktie, colored sand, coffee packaging, twine, gouache, crayon, paper towel, copy paper, color pencil, glitter, toddler drawing of artist’s grown son
60”x48”x1.5” Tripchy, 2026
“Thousand tongues,
Thousand flappers,
Flocks of birds in the air
All at once,
Sing.
I will hear you,
On that day, when
You speak in your mother tongue,
Like a mother’s tongue licks her new born
To cleanse and to protect
In eternal love.”
—Young-Ly Hong Chandra, June 2026
