스킵네비게이션

Blanket Project U has been ongoing for five years. It is like a game in which she translates words and Korean proverbs in such a way that they could constitute a new language capable of multiple interpretations, like a musical partition somehow. A red circular form with orange, lilac, and lemon green parts on a blue cocoon shape is aversion of LEE’s Korean saying “cat washing its face”, which means to rush a job. The spiritual simplicity of the motif could also evoke a sun encountering the planet Earth. 

These blankets are made following Nubi traditional technique by a craftsman named Seongyeon Cho (Tongyeong Nubijang) who lives in a city close to the sea, Namhae (the South Sea). Their collaboration is occasion for the artisan to experiment with the technique of Nubi by using vertical or horizontal stitches to create movement within the design of the geometrical shapes and vivid colors of the blanket. Therepetitive gestures of the Nubi technique allow time and body to be integral parts of the symbiosis operated within every “U” form. “U” refers to the river, a bridge, or a blanket covering the body. The blanket is a very intimate object, either used to sleep, keep one warm, or make love. We dream under a blanket. What if our dreams could be influenced by our blankets? What if our blankets could speak? Their form of communication could then be based on the possibility of a communal language, i.e., a language at the frontier of the universal and singular.