I consider art cross-culturally, showing artists relying on instinct directly relating to materials that connect with the world of the physical, and the need to make things.
In my work, for instance, as a Korean diasporic artist living in New Zealand, the Hanok (the traditional Korean house) is for me a hidden physical root. In other words, I identify Hanok with my own physicality and spirituality. The travelling Hanok from the past to present-day is a dual evolution work and a mindscape in cross-cultural life.
The Hanok is a cultural symbolic form that I ‘carry’ around with me. It reflects the social and geographical reality tied to my original culture while I explore the vitality of the new environment in the experience of in-between.
