Awareness Post #2
- answiththeplans
- Feb 12, 2025
- 1 min read
Ema Shin is a Korean artist. Her work is inspired by the gender inequality she experienced and witnessed in her Japanese upbringing. Her series Hearts of Absent Women honors women whose achievements are hidden by history with woven, stitched, and beaded anatomical hearts. The human heart form was chosen for this project because it is used to symbolize vitality and emotion.
I am intrigued and impressed by the artworks in Hearts of Absent Women. Many of the hearts are very anatomical with detailed veins and blood vessels, but the variety of colors and textures as well as the distinctive details of each heart give the pieces life and character. Multiple materials create different effects of texture and shape, but they come together to create cohesive pieces, which reminds me of the "The Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts" art class project from Quarter 2. I am inspired by Shin's harmonization of different elements and I would love to do something similar in my future works of art. Also, as someone interested in anatomy, I appreciate the way she made the image of the human heart into something artistic and meaningful. I find the intricacies of the human body beautiful and I would love to incorporate that appreciation into my art like she does, and I feel like I could definitely give anatomical art a symbolic meaning.
Comments