Korean traditional juvenile song Magpie’s new year day (까치 설날) 1.까치 까치 설날은 어저께고요 우리 우리 설날은 오늘이래요 곱고 고운 댕기도 내가 들이고 새로 사온 신발도 내가 신어요. Magpie, magpie's new year's day / was yesterday Our, our new year's day / is today Pretty, pretty pigtail ribbon, / I put (it) on myself (혹은 myself put it on) Newly bought (my) shoes / I put (it) on myself 2.우리 언니 저고리 노랑 저고리 우리 동생 저고리 색동 저고리 아버지와 어머니 호사 하시고 우리들의 절 받기 좋아하셔요. My sisters’ jacket / is a yellow on-e My brother’s jacket / is a colorful on-e Dad and mom are having / a happy day They love to see us / bowing to them. 3.우리집 뒤뜰에는 널을 놓고서 상 들이고 잣 까고 호두 까면서 언니하고 정답게 널을 뛰고 나는 나는 좋아요 참말 좋아요 . We set a seesaw-board / in our backyard Set a table, crack pine-nuts / and crack walnuts Play seesaw with my sister / happily together I am, I am happy. / More than happier. 4.무서웠던 아버지 순해지시고 우리 우리 내 동생 울지 않아요 이 집 저 집 윷놀이 널뛰는 소리 나는 나는 설날이 참말 좋아요 Strictly my father becomes / nicer for the day My, my brother / doesn’t cry. Here and there sounds of / board games and seesaw I am, I am happy. / More than happier
In the semester two, I am thinking to continue to work my last semesters work. Last semester work is about the five towers have been constructed with delicate sensibility to interpret the multiplicity of Korean pottery. The plates and bowls have been recreated following the method of European style while retaining the beauty and passion of the Korean culture and its everyday life. They are not about explicitly expressing what is lost, the cultural qualities that may have begun disappearing over social standards. Rather, they are meant to influence and change the way people think and value social, general and daily things in a subtle way. In the list of Korean National Treasures, there are a total of 29 towers; 5 of these towers that I have visited in my childhood have been recreated as a brand new art.
This time, I want to explore the idea about my birth country Korea and New Zealand’s culture issues to create in an artwork. I am not sure that what I want to start but I have few basic ideas, and i will start the first idea then later do others and keep develop them.
The first idea: In Korea has no national bird but everyone just believes that the national bird is a magpie, because of old Korean folk song about New Year. Every 1st January Korean sings the song and the lyric says ‘the magpie comes in New Year and it brings happiness and peaces to all people.’ I am interested a traditional folklore about the magpie brings happiness and peace. Also in the Korean traditional pottery’s painting, the magpie comes a lot because of the traditional folklore I think. In addition, the birds and also the magpie always moves and changes the place every year, every different seasons so inspired the idea about moving places to show that where is my places. So this time I am thinking to use this story to create artworks. The medium will be white clay or slip casting etc. I want to show and find my identity and cultures from this work, and it does provide a new way of looking at an old ideas. I started to look and find the history of pottery art for bibliography. (seung yul oh's oddooki (bird) exhibition was one of the good example)
In the drawing which I attached is that I started to draw the magpie and tried to make the abstract shapes. I am thinking to make those kind of style by the clay.
This time I want to show the possibility that new form and meanings can be rediscovered from what already exists by connecting the past and present to create something new and different. From this project, what I want to comprehend is that throughout the process, my focus becomes an effort to dig further into the internal emotions and subtle messages rather than explicit appearance.
I know that you have changed your project to breaking up pottery and reassembling it in a strange fashion. I recommended that you should try to put air bubbles in your pottery before firing so they can break in the kiln, making the process more random. It will be interesting to see what mutant monsters you make out of these pots.
ReplyDeleteAfter the meeting on Monday 3rd of Aug, I think that you should continue collecting broken pottery from the kiln factories, & like you said document on the different background stories of these broken pots. This could lead into an interesting inquiry.
ReplyDeleteHowever you need to figure out what you want to communicate to the audience from your work, & what mode needs to be established in order to do this. Maybe think of ways on how you could communicate the background stories of the broken pots you have collected.
If you are able to do this, then the audience will be slowly drawn into your work having potential to produce an aesthetic experience.
In terms of material that you are working with, being clay/ceramics & pottery produced from them, I know that you are focusing on ideas from your previous project linked with Korean pottery, again something to consider.