"Shared Space" Jooeun Seo

"Shared Space" Jooeun SeoJooeun Seo, Fayetteville, AR Shared Space, 2026 Relief print on Hanji paper 30 x 24 This work represents Our Common Ground by exploring how different symbolic forces can coexist and connect within a shared space of meaning. Rather than emphasizing separation, it focuses on relationships, showing how contrast between elements such as change and stability can create balance and understanding. Magpies act as connecting figures that link these different

” the niece of Alice Dawson

For 'Our Common Ground'

had been donated to the museum by the Swedlun estate and became a permanent exhibit at the museum

carrying memory forward within change

The sculpture stands as a cultural guardian

Moving through and between them

and essays by Fergus M

They had found common ground in their desire to help and had spent the week cleaning out sludge and mud

Every tree is important and useful in our lives

During the settling of the west

on the same planet in the same galaxy

and are known for their aquatic larva and moth-like adult phases