STRIPS OF HISTORY  

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CALLIGRAPHY ON FABRIC 

SOLO exhibition

NOV 3 – 9, 2008

Moknam Gallery, Seoul, Korea

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The inspiration for my first solo exhibition Strips of History comes from costumes worn from the ancient Egypt to the 19th century Romantic period. For me, this inspiration was an inevitable choice since I have been fascinated by the history of fashion, conducted my own historical research in the field of fashion history and taught history of costume for many years. My works not only incorporate the ideal beauty represented in the dress of the past, but also capture that of today. Just as many strips from history were woven together symbolically to create new designs, each work truly consists of long strips of fabric; they are cut from woven fabrics and hand-knitted ones. Selected colors are black, white, purple and gold. Purple and gold are chosen because they have long been known as colors of privilege, symbols of wealth and high social status. The crucial goal of this exhibition was not only to convey the essential beauty from the past to the present time, and but also to illustrate that “past is the greatest prophet of the future.”