A modular installation built from the cardboard correspondence between Seoul and London.
The installation rebuilds the cardboard correspondence between Seoul and London as a Mondrian-inflected modular system. Each box — once carrying food, small gifts, and handwriting from Korea — was disassembled and reconfigured into architecture that reads sending itself as structure.
Conceptual Origin
Cardboard boxes from Korea accumulated in a flat far from where they were packed. Each one carried food, small gifts, and handwriting along the side — sent at irregular intervals, taped down by the same hands. The empty boxes eventually outnumbered everything else in the home. The installation began the moment they were read as architecture: modular, repeated, built across distance.
Material Translation
The folded planes and squared geometry of the boxes carried Mondrian's compositional grammar. Where Mondrian abstracted the visible world into red, yellow, blue, this work abstracts distance into the same modular language. The piece does not represent the act of sending — it is built from the material that carried it.
Modular Construction
Each box was disassembled and catalogued by size, weight, and origin city. Panels were traced, cut, and reconfigured into modular units, then stacked into tiers that echo the postal codes that have held the maker in London. CAD mapped the modular logic; the cuts were made by hand to preserve the originals' folds and creases. The seams stayed visible.
Spatial Reading
The piece does not require the sender to be present. The boxes were already her presence: structured, repeated, sent without expectation of being witnessed. The installation is not a portrait. It reads instead as the architecture she has continued to build — modular, repeated, across an ocean.
