The title for my Bridge#2 peer-to-peer assignment is the Freedom from black.

Na Yon Kim, who is a Korean born in 1996, is my partner for this project. I’ve once met Na Yon in the New School meeting at Lotte Hotel in South Korea, but I was only able to know her name and her major, fashion design.

However, after we went to Moma, I was able to know her favorite artists: Nan Goldin  and Jackson Pollack. Nan Goldin and Jackson Pollack have two distinct style of art that seems hard to relate, but what I noticed about Na Yon through her preference in art is that she likes abstract and expressive art.

During the interview, Na Yon gave me an abstract answers to the questions, but I thought the vagueness gave me more space to explore her. I was especially inspired when she told me her favorite fashion is grunge style because it feels like a freedom in the gray and lifeless city and when she described herself in two words: black and natural. By listening to her answers, I decided to create a cloth that is just normal, but transformed as a unique cloth by painting expressive and dynamic movements that represents the freedom from being one of the pack.

I went to Forever 21 to purchase a plain sleeveless shirt and used acrylics that I’ve already purchased before at Blicks. While I was looking for white shirt, I have paid an attention to the quality of the material because there were some clothes that did not seem suitable to apply acrylics on. Some clothes almost look like ramie fabric. Even though I bought the sleeveless shirt after looking at various clothes, the cloth absorbed water quickly that made me hard to draw since the brush dries in within few seconds. Thus, I had to control the water amount, which allowed me to go back and forth between acrylics and water color paint even I was just using acrylics.