Bodas de sangre
Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca wrote Blood Wedding in 1932, and the play was performed in Madrid in 1933 for the first time. Later on, in 1981, Carlos Saura directed a flamenco musical film with the same title Blood Wedding that was based on this play.
Blood Wedding is filled with desire and temptation that resembles dark crimson red. Thinking of how the three main characters’ tension grew into uncontrollable flames that ended up destroying each other, I wanted to reconstruct the play’s theme of “destruction.” The bride’s fluttering white dress in the film reminded me of fragile flower petals, and poppies’ image popped into my head because of its red color and visual splendor.
Bodas de sangre, 2014
Detail of Bodas de sangre, 2014
Poppy Bowl Series
Poppy Bowl in Red, 2014
Poppy Bowl in Ocre, 2014
Torso
Women’s top has been reproduced over the past centuries. Intending to explore and feel how the female’s torso is formed, I used the coil method to build a woman’s chest out of clay. When making the torso, I saw the volume of the piece and imagined it functioning as a container. I chose to cut the top of the trunk and leave it open. On the spot where the woman’s head is supposed to be, I imagined flowers popping out. When one uses this vase, flowers will become the head of the woman. Without the flowers, it is a sculpture exploring the structure of a woman’s torso.
Torso, 2016,
ceramics, 40 x 43 x 24cm
Torso, spring 2016
