2025

Oct

This series of images was commissioned for Asymptote journal, an award-winning, internationally read magazine for world literature in translation. The magazine seeks to unlock literary treasures from many languages while treating translation as a creative act that tends toward the original but never fully replicates it. This aligns with Jayoon’s interest in how drawing can reveal aspects of experience that cannot be articulated through conventional language or through rationalised perception.

Working with fiction and nonfiction that range across child abuse, post-trauma, AI operation, the meaning of poetry, and many more, she turns to automatic drawing to ask what forms can emerge beyond reaction to description, so that the image acts as an evocation. The aim is to reach the text’s underlying direction while sidestepping the trap of obvious visual triggers.

To move beyond habitual image making and beyond how she views and depicts the subject, Jayoon adds a slit scan method as a second layer of unpredictability. Slit scan separates the image in RGB and shifts its proportions while preserving the delicacy of the original mark, which enables an unpredictable reinterpretation of what has been drawn. When a monochrome pencil drawing enters the slit scan, glitches appear and colour lifts out of the monochrome, exposing layers beneath the black and white. She treats these events as prompts that seed a digital form of automatic drawing in which each artefact cues the next mark and each frame suggests the next image to surface.

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