Title banner is fused and curing. Mapped the final layout. And now, with my plan in place, it’s now a full on sprint to the finish line. 9 days to go…
Narrative
Residency Day 16
Exhibition, family, Film, Installation, Narrative, Residency, Story, Works In Progress
Today was Photo Day – tracking down, doctoring, and printing out images of the Korean side of my family. The images in the final show won’t be this crisp. They’ll be faded, broken up, washed out, imperfect…just like our memories.
End of day: First image transfer done (my grandfather), many more family photos to go…
Residency Day 15
Activism, Exhibition, Film, Installation, Narrative, Residency, Works In Progress
After a week of hacking and wheezing, I’m happy to be back in the studio for a full day of making art. Lots of catching up to do. Today I’m making the title banner for my show — using the letters cut from my journal pages. Still have a full night of fusing ahead of me…
Residency Day 4
Activism, Exhibition, Film, Installation, Narrative, Residency, Works In Progress
For 40 years, journal writing has been my key to unlocking my story. I write to explore the stories I’ve inherited about who I am and where I come from, and to examine the stories I am passing down to my kid.
This journal writing has also served as my gateway to art. When stories surface in my pages, I figure out the best medium to express these emerging stories, I immerse myself in learning a new creative language — film to explore Dad’s side of the family, encaustic mixed media for Mom’s side.
So today, I pulled out 40 years of journals, and then took a stencil and paper cutter to the pages to carve out the letters for my title banner…
My Life in 24 Frames…
Exhibition, Narrative, StoryColumbia City Gallery
Featured Art Group Show
Opening Reception
Saturday, July 1, 2017
5-7pm
Wine & refreshments will be served.
Transform – (amphibious lungs)
I’m SO excited to announce my 11th show (in a year) — which also happens to be my first Featured Art Show!!! I will be presenting the first 5 panels of my new series, My Life in 24 Frames. These are my most recent pieces, all created within the past 4 months.
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve seen this body of work evolve. But of course, it is impossible to capture these pieces in a still photograph. They need to be seen, experienced, and (dare I say) felt, in person. The self-portrait, for one, changes radically depending on your viewpoint…
This series was inspired by a recurring dream I had as a kid. I recently had the dream again, and wrote about it in my journal. The free association that followed was the seed that inspired this series.
From my journal: I remember a recurring dream where I would be running away from “bad guys.” I would jump into a lake and hold my breath as long as possible, trying to go undetected. They stood over the water, watching for any sign of life — ripples, movement, air bubbles. When I realized they weren’t going away, I started to panic because I was running out of breath. And I knew surfacing meant certain death.
Suddenly, I remember that I have always had the power to breathe underwater –that my body is capable of taking in water, and extracting the oxygen I need to survive.
As I relax, I breathe the water slowly and deeply into my lungs…and return to breathing as I did in the womb. The safest, calmest, most peaceful state of coming into being. Breathing with ease, with fluid-filled lungs. Life giving, nurturing, affirming, an amphibic existence of breathing easefully underwater.
That is, until the fluid is forced out of the lungs with a cry—a violent entry into this new world of loud sounds and bright lights. And pain. A rude awakening into a new way of being. Everything too harsh and close, loud and immediate, and fundamentally apart from you.
TEDxSeattle – Why the World Needs Your Story
Activism, Film, Narrative, Speaking, StoryI’m excited to share that the video of my TEDxSeattle talk is FINALLY live!!!
When I started working on this talk in July, I couldn’t have imagined how vulnerable I would feel, delivering what now seems like a timely counter narrative to a packed McCaw Hall, just 2 weeks after the election.
So…if you like what you see, please consider giving the video a “thumbs up”.
And I encourage you to share this with any/all who might be interested.
Thank you kindly!