미 “yuck” 국
Whenever I had an important exam or presentation, my mom would prepare traditional Korean dishes with sticky textures, believing the material would “stick” to my brain. She always warned me that serving 미역국 (mi-yeok-guk), a traditional Korean seaweed soup, would bring bad luck—the slippery seaweed would cause all my memories to “slip away.” I had always thought this myth was foolish, though it gave me a convenient excuse to avoid my least favorite soup. This sculpture brings that family superstition to life. The slime spilling from the pot represents the seaweed soup, while fragments of my math homework are the “memories” that slip away. The visceral, body-like quality of the materials turns our family myth into something tangible.
Medium: Resin Printed pot and lid (Form Labs), air-dry clay, wood panel, acrylic paint
