Family memory etching (Zainichi Korean lineage series)

Part of Park's lineage-based body of work, this copper-plate etching extends the project she began with her 2021 Musashino Art University graduation piece — a portrait of her grandmother, a first-generation Zainichi Korean, derived from a photograph taken at the Modaikogyo factory. Photograph-to-plate translation is central to Park's method: the source image is redrawn in hard-ground line and developed in successive aquatint bites, so the figure emerges with the granular, slightly diffuse quality of intaglio rather than the sharp index of a print from a negative. Compositions in this series typically isolate a single family member within a quiet domestic or labor setting, the etched line carrying the texture of clothing and the soft falloff of light across a face. The work belongs to a generation of Zainichi artists using printmaking's reproductive logic to address inherited displacement — Korean residents who came to Japan during the colonial period and the descendants who remained after 1945 — making the plate itself a record of a history that is otherwise carried orally through the family.