Water
Uprooted from northern Korea during the US occupation, my family and lineage before my grandparents was severed. This kind of severing does not just apply to family histories, but to the history of the entire Korean people. 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, with these everlasting ceramic pieces.
“Water” takes the symbolism from the Korean flag, which holds all the ancient elements of Air, Earth, Fire and Water. The elemental symbols of Air 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. The planter floats elevated on the included drainage plate.
Dimensions: 5.75”W x 6.5”H (with drainage plate, 6”H without)
25% of your purchase will be donated to NODUTOL.
노듯돌 /no-dut-dol/:
stepping stone
home, opening, entryway
bridging
love and longing in separation
reunification.
Statement of Purpose
We are diasporic Koreans and comrades based in occupied Indigenous lands known as the United States and Canada. We organize for a world free of imperialism, and for Korea’s re/unification and national liberation.
Uprooted from northern Korea during the US occupation, my family and lineage before my grandparents was severed. This kind of severing does not just apply to family histories, but to the history of the entire Korean people. 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, with these everlasting ceramic pieces.
“Water” takes the symbolism from the Korean flag, which holds all the ancient elements of Air, Earth, Fire and Water. The elemental symbols of Air 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. The planter floats elevated on the included drainage plate.
Dimensions: 5.75”W x 6.5”H (with drainage plate, 6”H without)
25% of your purchase will be donated to NODUTOL.
노듯돌 /no-dut-dol/:
stepping stone
home, opening, entryway
bridging
love and longing in separation
reunification.
Statement of Purpose
We are diasporic Koreans and comrades based in occupied Indigenous lands known as the United States and Canada. We organize for a world free of imperialism, and for Korea’s re/unification and national liberation.
Uprooted from northern Korea during the US occupation, my family and lineage before my grandparents was severed. This kind of severing does not just apply to family histories, but to the history of the entire Korean people. 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, with these everlasting ceramic pieces.
“Water” takes the symbolism from the Korean flag, which holds all the ancient elements of Air, Earth, Fire and Water. The elemental symbols of Air 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. The planter floats elevated on the included drainage plate.
Dimensions: 5.75”W x 6.5”H (with drainage plate, 6”H without)
25% of your purchase will be donated to NODUTOL.
노듯돌 /no-dut-dol/:
stepping stone
home, opening, entryway
bridging
love and longing in separation
reunification.
Statement of Purpose
We are diasporic Koreans and comrades based in occupied Indigenous lands known as the United States and Canada. We organize for a world free of imperialism, and for Korea’s re/unification and national liberation.