The time the boy lived

Korean born, living in Chicago, the artist Kim creates ceramic pieces that appear at first glimpse to be toy-like. One might associate them with anime cartoon figures. But they go beyond “cute”. There is often something wrong, an injury, an imperfection, that could almost go unnoticed. Perhaps the figures are mourning bygone times when “the boy” truly lived as a creative person before his creativity was stifled by conventional society’s expectations of formality.