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  1. What did the horse know about the war?
  2. I have a small body, but I want to become an adult with good posture.
  3. Becoming beetle
  4. Fate work (1)
  5. How to be human (1964-2024)
  6. Welcome to my island
  7. I'm so full of desire; I want to eat salmon and drink coffee and eat cake.
  8. First bike
  9. Fish ferments
  10. three phantom translations
  11. you move, you are being moved, you are movement
  12. tank helmet
  13. enter here
  14. curatorial
  15. & others
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Becoming beetle

2025
8.5 x 11 x .5 in.
Archival inket print (97 page)

Edition 1/1

Bringing together 90 photographs from an artist and a beetle’s four-month coexistence, Becoming beetle traces the extinction of the dung beetle in South Korea and pursues an alternative mode of inter-species kinship that moves beyond the neo-colonial demands of environmental waste, indifference, and loss. The following images are earnest documents of the sites that the beetle and an artist witnessed together from September 2024 to January 2025 in their collective return to New York, Texas, New Jersey, Atlanta, and South Korea. Citing the seminal field guides of Kang Kyong-ae, Donna Haraway, and Clarice Lispector, Becoming beetle embodies the imperfect modes of play and care that can emerge when companions are allowed to link in the mutual process of becoming/relation/reliance.