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Jenny Yoshida Park's personal work takes the form of books, drawings, and collage. Often beginning with reference books as starting points, she injects evidence of humanity into what appear to be rigid, dispassionate, and neutral tomes. Visual manifestations of trains of thought, sense of humor, organic systems of association, collections of little scraps of information, jargon, pop culture, and iconography are woven into pre-existing texts or organized onto blank pages. Letting her mind play, she draws on various interests and making unexpected, surprising connections between discrete areas of thought and knowledge. By adding these unexpected elements, the resultant tapestry is a more accurate depiction of the richness of human experience than what reference books alone can offer.
Her work has been exhibited in juried shows at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in La Jolla, the Wangenheim Room of the San Diego Central Library, and San Diego State University's Flor y Canto Gallery.
