Sketches
First half of performance
Ending performance
Artist Statement:
As I was looking at the picture of my mother when she was in Korea, I felt a disconnect or distance between myself and my mother. I always had felt there was a bridge between my mothers culture and mine as an American. Growing up, I could not speak Korean at all and my mother would speak to me in Korean and I would respond in English. She would always have a hard time understanding and my parents thought it was a serious problem because I could not speak my own native tongue. I never saw it as a problem because I was American, but as I grew older, I understood more and more the importance of my heritage. I eventually grew to enjoy Korean culture and learned to speak the language and now looking back at my childhood, I realized my parents position and how hard it must have been for them. I wanted to express how important it is to be in tune with ones heritage. I put a standard t-shirt and skinny jeans over the traditional hanbok top and eventually wrapped the traditional skirt on top of the jeans to cover them to show how I had grown into my culture. In the background, I had played a conversation of my mother and I speaking, but the first 30 seconds is my mother speaking Korean and I responding back in English and the other half of me responding in Korean to show my grown and change.
