Based in New Jersey, So Yoon Lym spent years observing and photographing the hair and braid patterns of strangers. These observations eventually yielded a series of meditative, monochromatic paintings with a spiritual dimension. Lym believes that these paintings represents a human connection, a lifeline that connects generations of people who have practiced the same ritual. "The painter and the hair-braider lay down their marks like thier predessecor creator beings, carving and inscribing…
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