East Asian Art The Ways of WisdomMade in Korea, Asia Shin Young-
ok, Korean, born 1949 Woodblock-printed book pages mounted on
mulberry paper, hand-woven ramie and cotton threads Currently
not on view 2004-180-1a--ePurchased with funds contributed by
Andrea Baldeck and William Hollis, 2004 LabelShin Young-ok is a
fiber artist who transforms traditional Korean aesthetics into
innovative contemporary works of art. In creating Ways of
Wisdom, Shin used an entire volume of a nineteenth-century
printed version of The Analects of Confucius, a text that
records the thoughts of the Chinese philosopher Confucius. This
text was central to the religion of Confucianism and extremely
influential in Korea throughout the nineteenth century. Shin cut
the book pages out of their original binding and attached them
to handmade traditional Korean mulberry paper, which she then
wove into scrolls with ramie and cotton threads. The five
scrolls are in different colors, each representing one of the
five elements of the East Asian cos