The mother, somi from the duo artists somi+siyun, was a science gifted in her youth. She planned to go to dental school, but finally majored in computer science in college. That’s why she is only surrounded by hundreds of PhDs, professors and medical doctors. Sure, sadly but mostly men.By the time she attended Samsung Electronics, she was married earlier than other female colleagues. She waited for ten years to have a baby after marriage. It was a heartbroken memory. When she got her child like a miracle, her mother, who was a Korean language teacher, made a quilted bedding embracing her wishes. somi will pass it to her daughter.The precious daughter she’s got is “Woori Ddong-Sil”, which means “my cutie honey sweetie piglet” in Korean, that is artist siyun from this comic duo. All the aunts and uncles in her whole town call her that, so do I.somi says it’s good that Woori Ddong-Sil is not a typical gifted or princess. Of course she would be smart. Because she resembles her mother and father, she often enrolls in some kind of gifted classes without any special preparation.In Korean society, competition over gifted classes and tests is more than just overheated competition. Children go to several academies and private tutoring from kindergarten days, and their brains are “abused”, literally abused. Even if they do not join the so-called gifted route, children will get tired.But what’s even better about Woori Ddong-Sil is her friendship. There could be certain possibilities of getting caught up in jealousy or bullying among teens who study well. But somi says her daughter is very fortunate to be able to play well with “ordinary” “normal” “healthy” friends. Not because she studied well, but because she drove her friends, Woori Ddong-Sil always gets a huge discount on academy fees. She is a super healthy adolescent girl who eats incredibly well, sleeps well, and rips some papers and forgets well when stressed out. And she laughs very well.But wait, it’s an exam soon. Let’s hear what our pretty middle schoolers are thinking about before the exam.So, this is a mother-daughter project.For the mother artist somi, who pursues a happier life today than yesterday, wants to know the wishes, resentment and anxieties of her teenage daughter, siyun, that is Ddong-Sil, and her friends. She decided to give them a chance to resolve their agonies in a creative way.Then, did our cutie honey sweetie pigret and her thirteen-year-old girl gangs put up their own embroidery frames in arms and sat shyly like ladies with their feet together in a silent room, laughing like a picture and sharing refreshments, “Oh my, cutie honey sweetie besties did like this or did like that?” “Ho, ho, my pretty little princess, this color of silk fabric is as pretty as you, please have a look.” Come on, no way.Why do you imagine imagine embroidery like that?The part that the tomboys were responsible for was making “materials” for Jogakbo(Korean traditional patterned fabric art). Even her mother cannot rip the silk and linen fabrics without scissors, the girl gangs just did super easily.”Ahhhhhhh, exams, I haaaaaaattttttttteeeeeee those,” a girl cried.”Jooni, you badass, did you take another relationship with Sooni while dating me? Go, go away! What is this shit of a transit farewell?” another girl shouted.There was one more point where the traditional Gyubang Gongye is implemented in an entirely non-traditional way.The daughter artist, siyun, who was watching her mother’s hard work while going back and forth, couldn’t see the scene where she patted her knees and bent her waist with pain, so she arranged for the expert embroiderer of Gwangjang Market in Seoul and told her,”Mom, what are you doing now by yourself, there are several experts in the market. Go and hire them, borrow other women’s experty.”So, some pieces of embroidery are the work of a smooth expert, while others are crooked by somi herself.“By the way, somi, before you even debut, how could you hire an outside helper like being a master yourself?”I, as a curator of our team, bruised her a little, and she said, “Oh, wait, my waist hurts…” So what do I do more, the duo’s unique personalities and sense of humor are just maternal inheritance.somi said that after quitting her final job as a school teacher, she learned all kinds of women’s crafts from Monday to Friday chasing every “muncen (cultural centers in Korean)” classes. It has been fully manifested today, and the highlight of her works is a brooch made with semi-precious stones wrapped around a wire. So there is no “useless” experience in life.The title of this series, which my foreign colleagues who have been watching this project, are most excited and looking forward to, is:”Garden of Bitches”.Korean users can easily guess what is omitted in this term, (that is “crazy” bitches always are decorating their hair with flowers.), and the title is also the outcome of the daughter artist siyun, the cutie honey sweetie Ddong-Sil.
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