Photo credit : Laos Fois I work with materials that hold personal, cultural and historical significance. In my mixed media practice, I explore how materials collide and synthesize to convey embodied and metaphorical mythologies. For me, Thai mulberry is a beloved papermaking fiber and storytelling ancestor. Beyond the transmission of ideological content, I am interested in the material capacities of print, paper and book making to record time and ecologies, tracing the dialogue between nature and civilizations. My work plays with the materiality of impermanence, articulated as both corporeal experience and metaphysical possibility. The language of the burn is ritual script. Ash becomes evidence of a threshold crossed. My iterative approach is cyclical, self-reflexive, as I reclaim and evolve my cultural legacy. - JAZ GRAF, 2023