Sea Women

Her recent work Flowers for Jeju : The Last Mermaids focuses on the historical and spiritual tradition of the Haenyeo of South Korea. The diving women hang weightless, deep in the ocean, on the threshold of becoming lost in the black water or rising to the surface to return to the real world. Through the mediums of photography, dance, costume, and narrative, this work explores the unique ancestral relationship between the haenyeo and the oceans during a period of rapid ecological, industrial and technological change.