EUNAH PARK

Cluster Crafts Exhibitor | 2024

Eun-ah Park was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Daejeon with her parents, but after getting married, she moved back to Seoul. Although she was curious about the world as a child, she didn't have many opportunities to experience it. In her late 40s, when she moved to Seoul, she had a lot of time and opportunities to learn.

Her eldest daughter studied ceramics, and she became interested in traditional crafts. She started learning ‘Jogakbo,’ traditional Korean patchwork, which added colours to her world. She extended her material to ceramics to combine with patchwork. Her works are always ongoing in her learning progress.

These days, She is learning patchwork, ceramics, and woodworking. Her challenge is to combine these disparate materials that can supplement each other.

Her work, which was cut off by her environment, will be exhibited for the first time at the Cluster Crafts.

“Art saves the time of life, by instinctively, timely reminding us of the equilibrium and goodness which we must not presume to have already attained.” - Alain de Botton
Before specifically patternising my work, I lay out various colored Oksa (silk cloths). The colour arrangement of the cloth determines the outcome of my work. The unevenly woven Oksa proposes patterns to me, and I arrange colored patches together, composing patterns and forms. What is expressed in my hands is a dialogue with them, not my imagination.”

— Eunah Park

“Although the forms of the ceramics are diverse, the shapes of ceramics I consider are in harmony with the patchwork; the matches of textures, colors, and the complementary relationship.
In sewing patches and making ceramics, they present me with ways to express themselves. I become a tool to complete it. I can feel complete unconsciousness in my dialogue with them. The completed work is a wish for what I want to inspire and the completion of myself. I exclude negative things from being reflected in my work. Balanced beauty is always the first reason, and I hope it is read first in my work.”

— Eunah Park