Paperscapes and Earth Maps - a Process of Presence. With Yasuna Iman

Speaking with and listening to earth; the slow practice of hands, heart and presence. Yasuna Iman, is a multidisciplinary artist developing a visual abstract language on handmade paper and wood, using rust, maple, botanical pigments, and other raw materials sourced in the natural world. She creates sculptural paper wall pieces called Paperscapes from hand foraged maple fibers, as well as Earth maps, textured paintings whose stratified surfaces emulate the bird’s eye view of imaginary landscapes. Born and raised in Paris, France, she graduated with a B.A in Art History and Archeology from la Sorbonne in 2016. Self-taught artist, she currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. We had such a fun time speaking about the life within Yasuna’s sculptural Paperscapes and Earth Maps on wood. We walked the unravelled pathways of what it means to be immersed in suspended time, to create something both alive and evolving with one’s hands, and to sense the pulse of moving sentience flow from land to body to slowly created form, to be witnessed and felt by another. And of course, we spoke of the release of her new Body of Work, Bare. Find out more about Yasuna's work at yasunaiman.com You can learn more about The Saltwater Songlines Project at saltwatersonglines.com