Flower Cutting DONE!

First batch of colors in kimchi jars

Our clean basement! We dusted it off!!!

So we are officially DONE with flower cutting!

It has been a long journey... spending countless hours in the basement since beginning of December, we spent about three months preparing flower materials for the Lenox project - Spring Hiatus. 
It is going to be exciting to see all of prepared shredded flowers laid on the floor in the middle of Lenox Mall. My list of possible volunteers is growing... and it is happening in a week!

Proper Medium did a beautiful job capturing the process of flower cutting. You will get a good sense of what took place in the basement, cutting flowers. Click here --> http://www.fluxprojects.org/films/007.html

I will be posting daily updates when the project starts, so stay in tune!


- G.

Snow in Atlanta, Snow Crab, More Cutting -

Atlanta got covered with snow and freezing rain past 2-3 days. My first attempt to go out to the world miserably failed after sliding on our driveway. My parents and I did not bother to clean out our driveway when it snowed - have we ever had to do such a thing? No. We all assumed it would melt quickly. I now have to wait until ice melts... -_-;;

Atlanta is definitely not equipped for such weather. Schools have been closed for 3 days so far, and most of employees at where I work also could not make it to office today, that includes myself. Thousands flights got canceled and I'm not sure about young children, but most of us are eager to get back to our normal routines of things. Well, it definitely was a treat to have two full studio days though, as many other Atlanta artists commented on facebook. ^_^

 

Before this snow storm, we went to Marietta Fish Market last weekend and had delicious snow crab. My parents were always curious about that American restaurant, and never ventured it for themselves. My mom had Mango Margarita for first time and loved it. It is a great pleasure for me to finally treat them with my own money for dinner. They are continually being incredibly supportive in my preparation for the project in March.

Literally stuck at home, my parents and I had the most productive two days of cutting flowers. For the project in March at Lenox (funded by FLUX projects), we are estimating to cut about 700 cups - about 80 - 90 cups for each color. We are now almost done with our fourth color, purple, which took us about 6 weeks . That means we're almost half way done. 6 more weeks until the installation. We are excited yet physically quite challenged.

Flower Cutting Hasn't Stopped . . .

Last year on December 31st, I posted preparation images of cutting flowers for my show Repose at Get This! Gallery. 
http://gyunhur.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-new-year-everyone-thank-you.html

Well well,

Flower cutting has not stopped.

After I came home from Virginia, first thing my mother showed me was the basement full of silk flower boxes and a new set of paper cutters. So we started cutting again - with more efficient adjustments, such as having higher chairs, heavier paper cutters, covering noses and mouths from dust... same music is playing with similar gossips and conversations, and I cannot seem to believe how quickly time has passed this year.

It has been an incredible year. Starting with my first solo show with Get This! Gallery, many opportunities and rewards came that encouraged me to continue committing in this thing called 'being an artist.' I am incredibly grateful for generosity that has been given to me and excited for this coming year 2011.

I am going to focus on polishing up my blog (please continue to read my posts, hopefully they will get more interesting and sophisticated with less grammar errors.) and actualizing a few projects next year. I will continue to cut flowers, work at an office part-time, do more yoga, and eat lunches with artists in Atlanta.

Stay tune. More posts before 2010 ends!


- G.