Melting into watercolor, I feel complete. I must scream in colors and show how much I am bleeding. My Characters sing a song from thousands of years ago with the two mouths. My imagination comes from tiny fragments of color and bubbles up to the shape of a woman’s bottomless heart.
My past scars are unveiling and layering again with the happiest, most honest, and challenging medium, watercolor. I paint the raw emotions I share with other women on earth. A sad leitmotif plays when brushing their hair and containing bleeding colors in paper. I paint to sing a story of a Korean Woman in America.
Your reflection in the 구덩이 (pit) is telling me you cannot hear my songs, I whisper, try harder. My characters, my women and I listen to the sad leitmotif: Bachelorette, by Björk. "I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl."
Haejin Park is a first year MFA student in Painting/Printmaking.