Aiden Phạm ABOUT WORK

soft geographies

2024

colored pencil on newsprint & archival tape

In folk tales, when a character turns to stone, their feelings - hope, grief, regret - become a fact of our world. In a real sense, we live in the dreams of those who came before us.

soft geographies chart how feeling, fantasy, and personal history shape us and our horizons of possibility. Each labeled sheet presents the mythic boundless inner realm of memories and projections not quite our own, and flail.