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Migration Series
TeaYoun Kim-Kassor
My current research is focusing essentially on exploring my creative manifestations of an ever-ending identity inquiry, "Who am I?" More precisely, I seek to understand how my migratory history, my creative and academic reflections, and my personal recollections have shaped my identity, what defines myself and other individuals.
In this project, I pursue the quest to understand the question of identity by binding the visual into the conceptual with the help of a traditional Korean textile sewing technique called Nubi, whereby two layers of fabric with cotton or Korean traditional mulberry paper are joined together and sewn with silk threads. I used this particular sewing technique, on the visual side, as a vehicle and, on the conceptual side, as a cultural voice. Due to its intricate craftsmanship, the fabric is hand-stitched and the work involves significantl attentiveness, and methodical training that are interpretation of iconographic configurations of my motherland, South Korea.
Using the Nubi sewing technique, I have created manifestations where fabric is behind fabric, colors behind colors, space behind space. I have created limitless, boundless, and dimensionless entities, a personal representation of identity. |