Artist Note 10 – Visions of Fatherhood and Continued Reading
June 24, 2021
“100 Visions of Fatherhood”
Father’s Day, June 20, 2021, has come and gone so quickly. Where did the time go?
In a similar fashion to last month’s call, The Luupe offered another photography call, “100 Visions of Fatherhood.” You’ll find more prominent artists, such as Elinor Carucci and Jess T. Dugan. However, as you scroll through the images, continue to the very last image, and you’ll get a sense of the varied feelings and visions of what fatherhood looks like, and even the feeling of missing the presence of a loved one.
My image is somewhere in the mix. I decided to use an image of some friends of ours who traveled up and down the east coast before the move back to Japan. It was our first long road trip together. I watched how our respective husbands were with the boys, and that moment of the father and son struck a chord.
But as any parent would know, raising a child is a tricky balance. That tension between love and discipline, especially when rearing a child into an adult, is not easy.
Bisa Butler’s Exhibit
A fellow future MFA candidate pointed out an exhibition at the Art Institute – Bisa Butler’s textile art/quilt work.
Butler has a degree in painting, but she chose to work with textiles as a substitute due to the toxicity of paints when she became a mother. You can see a lot of vibrant colors and her experience with painting influencing her work in textiles when she makes these beautiful portrait quilts.
I’m finding that quilting, especially Korean quilting, takes a significant amount of research.
Continued Reading on Korean Culture
I took a break from academic reading on Korean cinema and how-to quilting books, and I started reading several novels. I completed Heart & Seoul and Almost American Girl (affiliate links). But then I tried Friend by Nam-nyong Paek (affiliate link). Paek is a North Korean author, and I thought it would be an interesting read to hear the voice of a North Korean author. However, I couldn’t get past the first chapter. The story was interesting, but something about the author’s voice projecting his thoughts about what the woman was thinking didn’t sit well with me.
I then started My Brilliant Life by Ae-ran Kim (affiliate link). The first chapter got me hooked. In the first several chapters, I took notes of what the author projected about the mother’s point of view on parenting and her life decisions. As the book moved towards the main character’s experience in the hospital, I took fewer notes. But it was the end of the book that took me by surprise.
I’m still woefully behind, but at least I feel like I’ve knocked out several novels of my reading list. As I am preparing for the start of graduate school, one of my goals is to read as much as possible about Korean quilting, novels from the Korean/Korean-American perspective, and academic books on Korean cinema. Once the program starts, I don’t think I’ll have the time to read these books. It will be time to start making working – photography work. My time spent reading about Korean culture will help inform my work as the school year progresses.
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