Of all the Homes 
Magkeolli Hung Over Hallasan 
All the S Verbs in Solidity 
Extension for Non-Essential Rituals 
Free Size Fail 
Pink Shrine for Blue Belt 
Pocket Relics 
1- Lap and Arm Extension for Kneeling on the Floor
Artist Biography
I am an artist and educator living in Boston, Massachusetts from Detroit, Michigan. In addition to my sculptural and ceramics based practice, I am a Lecturer in Fine Arts at Brandeis University and Framingham State University.
As far back as my consciousness goes, there are three truths at the very core of my identity that have fundamentally shaped the way I exist in the world:
I am a woman. I am a Korean American Adoptee. I am an artist.
Our identities are constructed of things we choose and things we don’t. The blurry space that exists in-between is the place where I begin creating art from. My work often deals with physical or metaphorical balance, particularly the point between two states of existence where an object, act, or memory is simultaneously present as both. Through traditional and digital sculptural techniques, I explore the relationship between impractical, sentimental objects and their co-existence in intimate spaces (mental and physical) with the human body. What are the cultural, societal, and personal influences that dictate our own hierarchies of taste, function, and nostalgia?
In a time when space is a commodity, I am considering what it means to take up space as a minority female sculptor, while making objects that also require space to exist. The relationship between my identity as an adoptee woman and the work that I create is always present. It manifests through the opposing qualities I hope to imbed in the objects I create— solid and fluid, inanimate and sexual, precious and ordinary, modular and permanent– something that is so familiar to the adoptee experience… to be neither wholly one nor the other, but somewhere in-between.
