Joomchi is a 500-year old Korean paper-manipulating technique where one works layers of handmade paper (Hanji) together while wet to form a single sheet of paper. I roll the paper with my hands in order to bind the paper fibers together and open up the sheet to create lace-like structures. I take a painterly approach to Joomchi – adding drips of acrylic paint and embedding hand-pulled monotypes and lithographic prints from photographs in the layers of paper. The handmade papers are imprinted with images of floating figures among aging trees and abstracted landscapes. The extreme physicality used to bind the paper connects me to the passage of time and shifting roles that form my personal family tree. Here, the Joomchi paper process serves as a metaphor for lasting familial strength.