Fluctuating between painting, photography and moving image, my work explores points of rupture and connection that arise in navigating mixed heritage. The title of this piece, Han Ah Reum (One Arm Full of Groceries) references H Mart, a Korean supermarket, and uses this location as a starting point to examine the effects of consumption on cultural identity. The audio piece uses found audio and a text-to-speech transcript of my search history to critique the rising popularity and assimilation of Korean cuisine into mainstream culture. The glasses contain the ingredients for making kimchi, exploring this as both a ritual and a commercial process. The film uses camera roll footage refilmed with polarising and macro filters, as well as street view imagery, exploring an inconstant sense of “home”. Projected onto a painting, changing light levels illuminate latent details in the painted surface; the hazy, half-hidden image produced mirrors my experience of existing between cultures.
