Anthony Park Kascak

My work references traditional Korean folk arts (patterns, objects, symbols, rituals) and personal narrative which reflects my positionality as a first generation Korean American. Working with ceramics allows me to engage with various forms of transformation: The stages of creation in ceramics itself is a physical metamorphosis— the time, labor, and process of my practice mirrors the task of working on oneself. As I work, research, and reflect, I become more aware of internalized emotions. This internal growth is a personal reshaping. Working from disseminated historical images from books and online creates an idealized translation of the researched thing, this abstraction of content is another form of transformation. It is my hope that my work makes people consider how personal narrative highlights the complexity and nuance of cultural hybridity, intersectional identity, as well as the transformative potentiality of our cultural psyche.


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