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Is Here There?: Journey of a Diaspora Artist

Is Here There?: Journey of a Diaspora Artist

Moon, Dury
Lee, Jae Won

Paperback

American Art - Asian-AmericanCeramicsIndividual Artists

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ISBN13: 9791189809676
Publisher: Seoul Selection USA, Inc.
Published: Feb 29 2024
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.81 Depth: 9.14
Language: English

Diaspora Artist, Asking the Way
Is there a place for me? Could it be here?

The author of this book, Professor Jae Won Lee (Michigan State University), has a unique background. Born and raised in Seoul, she studied psychology before moving to the United States, where she majored in sculpture for her BFA and ceramics for her MFA. She is now an established visual artist.

This book offers an honest account of her journey between 2019 and 2023, a time marked by the global pandemic. It weaves together her artistic process, reflections during solitary walks, handwritten notes on her restlessness, studio journals, and personal diaries--charting her experiences of isolation, moving, returning to Korea, and searching once again for a place to belong. Amid the heightened racial hatred and verbal violence in the U.S. during the pandemic, she reached a breaking point and decided to leave. She applied for a Fulbright grant and was given the opportunity to research and teach in Korea for a semester. Yet even in her homeland, which she hoped would feel less like an exile, she could not shake the sense of being a stranger.

The Inborn Longing of Diaspora as Creative Force

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