In Korea it’s traditional to keep your newborn baby inside for 21 days. Only close family members are allowed to come see the baby. This practice is believed to keep the possible disease and germs of the outside world away from the babies developing immune system. After 21 days your baby is free to go outside and you have a party where friends and family come over.
I painted this right after I had my baby girl. Everything was beautiful, she was healthy and I loved her so much, but I was scared. Here’s my fragile, little, and vulnerable baby girl that I’m now totally responsible for. I was so worried and scared something could happen to her.
This work depicts the feelings I had on the 22nd day of her life, when I took her outside for the first time. The world can be a dark scary place and I had to protect her from those dangers, I just wasn’t sure I could.
Had no idea.. Tradition well respected.. Love and miss you guys.. Follow you on FB so, we do keep in touch!
Hi Suzette,
Miss you too!
Hi Misoo,
How are you? I recently discovered your works and I find them to be very captivating and often eerie!
Why are you painting like this? You are definitely an artist and I believe lot of people like your paintings.
Were you trained in China originally?
I haven’t gone through all your website contents yet so I am still looking at it as I type….
Thank you for sharing!
Louis
( I love to paint landscape only ; ))
Hi Louis,
Thank you for your interest on my work. It means so much to me.
I am originally from South Korea and never been to China which I always wanted to visit
Currently, I am a graduate student and I started to paint when I first came to US to communicate my feelings because of my language barrier.
Thank you again!
Misoo
Hey, I just hopped over to your site via StumbleUpon. Not somthing I would normally read, but I liked your thoughts none the less. Thanks for making something worth reading.