Artist Note #19 – Comfort Woman Piece
November 19, 2022
Back in March 2021, I read One Left by Kim Soom (affiliate link).
Something about this book drew me into a desire to make an image. I had the idea to create something that spoke more about the injustice of it all. The Japanese government doesn’t admit any wrongdoing, and yet, comfort girl statues and protests continue.
I needed to make a prop to incorporate it into the image. Paper flowers of the Korean national flower. I began looking at images of the Rose of Sharon and even picked up a cutting from a neighbor nearby. I looked through how-to books and videos to make these flowers. Each person showed their own version to make these flowers.
Now that I am in graduate school, I felt the need to make this image more and more.
As I made more Rose of Sharon flowers, they needed something more. I looked through the how-to books and came across a Japanese peony. I made several and when I had enough flowers, I intertwined them together.
I had a short window to make the image, and the timing never seemed to work out. So I struggled to make this image. It is the first self-portrait image I made since starting graduate school. Although it is not the image I had in mind, it is the first of a possible series.
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