Contemporary Design

Shamanism: The Heterotopia of Language by Yongsub Shin

A shaman translates nature’s language into human understanding. For shamans, nature is their book and library. If there were an Ex Libris for a shaman, it would be a frottage, a way of feeling details that cannot be found by sight alone. For me, it is a powerful way to bring my attention to the present moment, while feeling close to nature, whenever and wherever I am. Please take a moment to be in the present making frottage with Shaman's tool, Ex Libris Coin.

Materials: Paper, Pencil, Nature treasures, Brass

Full book: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/

Person reads at a sunlit desk by a tall window with notes hanging on strings
Photo: Yongsub Shin
Dark desk by a window with blank white sheet, art books and a wooden branch-like object arranged neatly
Photo: Yongsub Shin
Two pale pegboards with twigs, leaves, lichen, pine cone and pencils arranged on a dark surface
Photo: Yongsub Shin
Hand holding sketchbook with grey rubbing lines, beside white frottage workshop guide sheet on dark table
Photo: Yongsub Shin
Close up of frottage pencil texture of tree bark on paper.
Grey pencil rubbings of a large maple leaf, a small feathery stem and a single winged seed on white paper
Grey rubbing of wood grain: plank with vertical seams above, tree ring cross-section below on white background.
Four thin grey tree-branch lines with small side twigs on a white background
Grey papers hang on strings before a snowy campus with red brick buildings and bare trees outside the window.
Photo: Yongsub Shin
Blurry snowy forest book cover with title beside a white info card on a black surface
Photo: Yongsub Shin

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