Lisa Myeong-Joo, Meaning is Later, 2023, chalk, performance.  Exhibited and performed at Loose Threads curated by Alice Woo Hwa McCool at POP Gallery, Adelaide

This performance is part of an ongoing series of two-handed drawings. It is also a drawing for two languages, where the artist writes the same word in both Korean and English simultaneously enacting a double translation. Three paths are created in a single gesture, though all of them temporary in action and  medium as indicated by the impermanence of the chalk. The paths like words are endless and forever hinged by the body as a space for meaning to arise. The artist recalls, there was once a Korean language teacher in Gwangju, who in her first lesson said to her class, “It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand now — meaning is later.”