Pray

HEO yunhui’s Pray is a work that was produced as a result of studying the symbolic meaning, materials, technique, and design characteristics of traditional Korean embroidery and wrapping cloth called bojagi. Korean wrapping cloths are a cultural asset that embody religious wishes and national sentiments that are beyond their function of carrying or decorating things. They old value as artwork with formative beauty. The artist delivered the symbolic meaning of wrapping cloths, such as good auspice and prayers for good fortune, through the very familiar material of cotton. Without being restricted by its practical use, the work is a contemporary reinterpretation of the traditional textile craft that utilizes traditional hemming techniques. The regular division of surfaces by triangles, squares, and rhombi created from the intersections of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines create morphological beauty. Soft light and shades that enetrate through the geometric surfaces symbolize the artist’s thoughts on the passage of time. The emotions that arise from the past constantly overlap with the present in the form of memories in the subconscious, and the wishes and prayers kept inside are revealed unconsciously to overlap with future, keys to artist’s motif.