Provenance: Finale Art File

ABOUT THE WORK

          A childhood diary is a written record of life’s  earliest memories.  Contemporary artist Ayka Go attempts to recreate the whimsical characters of her imagination as described in her diary entries and drawings — in hopes of reconnecting to her own young self and world.
          Visualizing and representing them through painting and paper sculptures.  The process includes reading, interpreting, reproducing, and recreating.  Go reads and sorts out the pages of the diary that she wishes to interpret, then scans them to reproduce the pages.  Since the diary itself is private, by folding the pages of the diary, the contents are concealed and revealed all at the same time.  It may not be read as a literary content but rather, seen as an object already.