We are ONE Korea

Uprooted from northern Korea during the US occupation, my family and lineage before my grandparents is entirely severed. This kind of severing does not just apply to family histories, but to the history of the entire Korean people. The ongoing trauma can last generations, as I have felt so intimately in my own family. The art and culture of that history can never be recovered, but maybe I can connect the past and present, and call for a unified Korea, and heal some of the loss with these everlasting ceramic pieces.

The elemental symbols of Air, Earth, Fire and Water have been present on the Korean flag since before the Japanese occupation and the US invasion. Here, these symbols are abstracted and inscribed into the clay. These vessels are both modern in shape and design and ancient in the patina of the exposed clay exterior. Exposed clay allows your plant to breathe.

25% of your purchase will go to NODUTOL or KoreaPeaceNow!