Gumiho (Signed Gicleé Print)
On so many of these pieces, I’m such a nerd about things. I read and research so much for the bigger ones because I find the stories so exciting. Really, that’s oftenl how I come to choose the pieces I make. I especially love stores about growth, and evolution of the self.
For gumiho, there are so many stories of fox people across Asia. Western cultures that are not familiar with the gumiho may reconize the Japanese stoires of kitsune. And even within Korean culture, there’s a lot of different lore about gumiho.
The story I’m fascinated by is where if you’re a fox, you can take on a challenge - like don’t eat meat for 100 or 1,000 days - then you gain the ability to transform into a human.
Sometimes becoming your new, more powerful self is not easy to do. Sometimes this life changing process is counterintuitive. That’s what I was trying to capture, the moment when a gumiho has achieved change and is transforming into a human.
At the time I made this, K dramas were not that well known, so I also meant this as an invitation to be curious about Korean culture. Even in other works I often throw in little Easter eggs of Korean culture.
On so many of these pieces, I’m such a nerd about things. I read and research so much for the bigger ones because I find the stories so exciting. Really, that’s oftenl how I come to choose the pieces I make. I especially love stores about growth, and evolution of the self.
For gumiho, there are so many stories of fox people across Asia. Western cultures that are not familiar with the gumiho may reconize the Japanese stoires of kitsune. And even within Korean culture, there’s a lot of different lore about gumiho.
The story I’m fascinated by is where if you’re a fox, you can take on a challenge - like don’t eat meat for 100 or 1,000 days - then you gain the ability to transform into a human.
Sometimes becoming your new, more powerful self is not easy to do. Sometimes this life changing process is counterintuitive. That’s what I was trying to capture, the moment when a gumiho has achieved change and is transforming into a human.
At the time I made this, K dramas were not that well known, so I also meant this as an invitation to be curious about Korean culture. Even in other works I often throw in little Easter eggs of Korean culture.
On so many of these pieces, I’m such a nerd about things. I read and research so much for the bigger ones because I find the stories so exciting. Really, that’s oftenl how I come to choose the pieces I make. I especially love stores about growth, and evolution of the self.
For gumiho, there are so many stories of fox people across Asia. Western cultures that are not familiar with the gumiho may reconize the Japanese stoires of kitsune. And even within Korean culture, there’s a lot of different lore about gumiho.
The story I’m fascinated by is where if you’re a fox, you can take on a challenge - like don’t eat meat for 100 or 1,000 days - then you gain the ability to transform into a human.
Sometimes becoming your new, more powerful self is not easy to do. Sometimes this life changing process is counterintuitive. That’s what I was trying to capture, the moment when a gumiho has achieved change and is transforming into a human.
At the time I made this, K dramas were not that well known, so I also meant this as an invitation to be curious about Korean culture. Even in other works I often throw in little Easter eggs of Korean culture.
