a slight bend of the wrist.

i wrote about korin in an extended essay a few issues back for hi-fructose. i very much liked her work then and remarked how light and ritual and the mental space of the mind seemed vast and thoughtful in her portraits. the doubling especially snared me. but it truly is her new work, 'voices of the lake' that touches me more deeply. these figures, half sunken and dressed in victorian- esque finery that clings to their dampened bodies in spectral waters reminds me of a baptism. coupled with her metaphysical doubles it takes on a more psychic shape to me. the emotive yet still expressions are captivating in a way that expands through the simple backgrounds. i keep looking at them again and again.