Colony Reprise creates a space for contemplation of inherited histories of trauma on the Korean peninsula. My mother reads an English translation of a poem called “Colony” by Ham Dong Seon (b. 1930) while I correct her pronunciation and read along certain lines, that I use to construct my own poem which echoes the structure of the original.
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Mint Gallery, California Institute of the Arts
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Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, July 2018
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