The Tides We Carry by Gia Han, 2026
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“These images are the remnant of a possession.​ They are a departure and arrival of self. I often think about​ Adoptees, and therefore myself, as two things: first, as rivers,​ entire bodies carrying ecosystems, bringing bits of the land​ that we’re traveling away from and shaping the new lands we​ flow to. And second, as ghosts that haunt both our motherland​ and the foreign lands we now call home. But here I am,​ a turned tide, coming back to its source. So I go looking for​ anything I might find familiar, pieces of the land and waters​ that make up this island. I feel like I’m being guided by something;​ I feel myself being pushed and pulled this way and​ that. Jeju-do has an energy—a presence I can feel running​ beneath the soil, through my body, and into the air…”

Gia Han (b. 1993, Seoul, South Korea) is an artist living and working. Her work examines self-image, personal histories, family structures, and cultural identity.

Design Direction by Luminosity Lab

7 × 8.5” vertical
softcover, offset
64 pages, 56 plates
Printed in Italy
First edition, Limited to 350 copies