RE/ENVISIONING
2023
RE/ENVISIONING
DC Commision for the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) Gallery
Curated by Allison Nance and Nicole Dowd
My practice dwells in the void filled by collective memories left in the wake of silence.
Interweaving the fading practice of cocoji, floral arranging in Korea, erased during occupation and war—to reclaim and reimagine inheritance and to counter memory existing in public spaces.
When my hands are in flowers, I think of my lost family left behind when my paternal grandfather fled the north before the war; my maternal grandmother who was in an arranged marriage to reduce her chance of becoming a comfort woman; my mother-in-law who saw her mother’s generation arrange flowers as part of the daily life she watched disappear as she grew older.
The living sculptures made in community with others exist to bear witness the remnants of our shared humanity and to flood all the silences between generations with those memories.
DC Commision for the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) Gallery
Curated by Allison Nance and Nicole Dowd
My practice dwells in the void filled by collective memories left in the wake of silence.
Interweaving the fading practice of cocoji, floral arranging in Korea, erased during occupation and war—to reclaim and reimagine inheritance and to counter memory existing in public spaces.
When my hands are in flowers, I think of my lost family left behind when my paternal grandfather fled the north before the war; my maternal grandmother who was in an arranged marriage to reduce her chance of becoming a comfort woman; my mother-in-law who saw her mother’s generation arrange flowers as part of the daily life she watched disappear as she grew older.
The living sculptures made in community with others exist to bear witness the remnants of our shared humanity and to flood all the silences between generations with those memories.