(2000, installation) folded paper, photographs, tampons, paper clips, string, two Korean children’s music (학교종이 땡땡땡 & 미류나무), 135(h) x 1717(w) cm
Washing Line (2000) installation view at a studio room, Camberwell College, London
When I was just below teenage, I remember talking about my mum’s washing with some boys whose family shared a house with us. We would play together and shared many things. They were curious about particular objects from the washing line that, in those times in Korea, would be visible to everyone, but which we later grew embarrassed about.
Many years later at the college, at the end of the seven weeks of a class called Object & Meaning, I chose the entire window space of the studio as my space in which to make an installation. Making this piece involved lots of paper folding activities. At the time, I was commuting from North West London to the college in South East London. I would take the number 36 bus and sit in the back corner of the top deck making folded figures on the long journey home.
When I hung them, I made them into written music with two particular Korean childrens’ songs in mind.
