Available for pre-order to be posted out from 10th December!
Two sizing options: A very exclusive A1 size, of a limited run of only five pieces. Then a limited run of thirty 400 x 590mm sizes.
Sunja’s boarding house in Yeongdo, from the fictional novel Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.
Set in Yeongdo in South Korea in 1911, the familial boarding house was a refuge for fishermen and travellers, belonging to a family of modesty in a time of unrest. The boarding house was the starting point of the story that would span generations following the family, who were learning and dealing with what their identity meant to them when uprooted from their home, their resilience, and their pursuit of belonging in an unfamiliar place.
Drawing each space so intricately and descriptively, capturing the everyday objects within the home, allowed me to live in a describe this imagined world.
“The wooden house they had rented was not large, just shy of five hundred square feet. Sliding paper doors divided the house into three snug rooms. Eventually, the kitchen was pushed out into the vegetable garden to make way for the larger cooking pots. In the kitchen garden, ponytail radishes, grown fat and heavy from the early spring rain, were ready to be pulled from the brown earth. Pollack and squid were strung neatly across a long clothesline. Their prosperity was more evident inside. In the kitchen, stacks of rice and soup bowls rested on well-built shelves...”
Giclée Print on Hahnemuhle German Etching Paper.
Pictured is the 400 x 590mm print in a 500 x 700mm frame, frame not included!
