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South Korea
Sculpture, Clay on Canvas
Size: 43.3 W x 9.8 H x 3.9 D in
Ships in a Crate
On special occasions such as the "sol"(lunar New Year), "chuseok"(lunar Thanksgiving), "dol"(a child's first birthday), and "hwangap" (60th birthday), Korean women made rice-cakes. On these joyous occasions, rice, the most precious grain that was carefully saved and stored, was used abundantly. The rice-cakes were decorated using special wooden molds of various themes and designs, including characters such as "su" denoting longevity, water lilies and bats - all traditional symbols of good fortunes. The rice-cake molds thus embodied the love and care, devotion and prayer of the women who prepared them. They captured a woman's wishes for the health of her husband and children as she marked their birthdays, her ardent prayer as she sent her son off on a long and often hazardous journey to Seoul to take the civil-service examination to bring honor to the family, and her heartbreak as she sent off her daughter who was getting marked and moving to a far-away place, perhaps never to meet again as the social custom of old dictated. As I discovered the beauty of the rice cake molds as well as the love and devotion that they embodied, I wished to recreate them for an age in which such practices as well as the archetypal Korean "soul" are becoming distant memories. In this particular piece, I fused the traditional Korean rice-cake motif with a Christian motif, the "Miracle of Five Loaves and Two Fish" both motifs expressing faith, abundance, and blessing.
Sculpture:Clay on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:43.3 W x 9.8 H x 3.9 D in
Frame:Other
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:South Korea.
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South Korea
I currently work out of a studio in Toechon, a rural village just east of Seoul, near the beautiful Paldang reservoir. I have lived and studied in Korea, the U.S. and France. My favorite medium is oil, but in the past five years, I have been working with mixed-media, using clay to mold shapes and figures inspired by traditional Korean roofed-tiles and rice-cakes, among others.
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