Year: 2025

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 22” x 16”

Others: Before Seollal, the Korean New Year, my mother and my grandmother would always wrap my sister and I in itchy hanboks and braid our hair into neat, tight knots. My sister and I often napped or played games during this process, while my grandmother and my mother drank tea and gossiped. This piece captures that mundane but intimate moment, shared between grandmother and mother, mother and daughter. Beyond the grand ceremony of Seollal itself, it is in the simple acts of braiding hair and pouring that tradition lives on, and it is this everyday tenderness that allows past to gently flow into the future.