There are two pieces making the installation — the top hanging blanket piece, CatchBug & EatSnack & OrigamiTime, is made out of a found fabric that has a pattern of repeated rabbit imagery and a digitally-printed cotton fabric that consists of flower patterns that were drawn with colored pencils and scanned. The blue apron was painted with acrylic.
The bottom piece sitting on the floor, Jean Button Buddy, is made out of found fabric that has a pattern of airplane toys, old jean shortall of mine that I had had since middle school, and white cotton fabric. The flowers on the jean, an illustration of a shirt, shoes, and socks on the other fabrics are painted with acrylic and drawn with marker.
The imageries on the both pieces symbolize memories from everyday life in my childhood, still strongly and nostalgically recall in my head.
General Artist Statement: The consistent demeanor of rubbing my fingernails along every stitch border of my light blue with green dots blanket, often comes up in my head as a clear memory. I can define the memory as neither pleasing nor unpleasant, but I clearly remember I was obsessed with the tangibility and the blanket’s coziness provided me security and warmth from the outside world.
The blanket was gone a long time ago, but nostalgia and obsession from my security blanket have continued inside me to get a new sleeping mate, Bunny, when my anxiety and loneliness started after being away far from home. These attachments to the stuffed toys have become a motive for my current works. Out of colored or dyed fabrics, I make soft sculpture pieces such as blankets and stuffed dolls named Buddies, creating my own childhood comfort zone to attempt to detach from adulthood in the challenging reality.
