Path of Flowers I Sculpture

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. Recalling our archetypal Korean women who greeted spring with azalea petals on "hwajeon", or "flower rice-cakes", after a long, cold winter, I present my work with the wish that your future also blooms into a path of flowers.

Sculpture:Clay on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:102.4 W x 63.8 H x 2 D in

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