statement
I Am Not Worthy is no longer a story that belongs to me. in truth it never has. i’ve tried to make it my own, brought in my things & called it home, sheltering there from the fearsome world outside, even returning to it with relief after being away for days or months at a time. yet no matter how many times i visit or take refuge here, I know it is not Home. Home is where I Am. weaving threads, pulling at them impatiently. not a set of walls as much as a seat, one which I may rest on whenever & for as long as is needed. sometimes we leave home. it is so that we may - years, decades, perhaps even a lifetime down the line - eventually return.
Home Is Where I Love From. in the dizzying heat & in the longing, in the inexplicable welling up of these eyes at words & dance & strums of a particular type, in the agitation of not knowing what comes next & in the serenity of this same realization, in the cupping of the hand over a spider on the wall, in the summertime sadness & nostalgia & cliches, in the the birds’ song & the clear , cool waters of a friend, in the stolen coffee creamer & the candle used as an ashtray, in the clothes that have known our stretching & shrinking over the years, in the people who have witnessed these same changes in our spirit as they too shapeshift before our very eyes...in all of this, I Am Home.
katherine summer kim (b. 1999) is a Colorado-based artist whose work explores themes of identity, interconnectedness and our communion with the unseen.
Born in South Korea and raised in rural Italy, their work draws from experiences of multicultural exposure and struggles with belonging, looking to the natural world for guidance. Inspired by nature’s cyclical patterns, their practice is a space where contradiction is revealed and embraced as medicine - drawing sustenance from the fertile and infusing life into the remains of what was. In work that spans across disciplines from figurative to abstraction, questions of Selfhood and the contrasts of Being are rendered through line, color, text and found imagery. Drawing, painting and collage often combine to reveal forms both familiar and otherworldly, planes where hurt and hope coexist, bridging personal and universal.