Series of childhood memories / illustration :
: No one calls me_Waiting
Childhood Memories / edition 50
Digital print, drawing with colored marker, pencil, pen, water color and photo collage on printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2015
: Nothing in there_Two little girls with umbrella
Childhood Memories / edition 50
Digital Print, drawing with colored marker, pencil, pen, wather color and photo collage on printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2015
: Playing hide and seek
Childhood Memories / edition 50
Digital Print, drawing with colored marker, pencil, water color and photo collage on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2017
: Emulation
Childhood Memories / edition 25
Digital Print, drawing with colored marker, pencil, photo collage and stencil on Printmaking paper.
19" x 13" / 2020
Who will jump thump
The sound of the foot jumping up and down.
Competitive psychology that is invisible to each other.
Bounce Bounce Bounce
The sound of breathing high.
Harmonious cross beats that imitate each other.
Emulation is about getting inspiration from each other.
By Jihoe Koo
: Long day
Childhood Memories / edition 25
Digital print, drawing with marker, photo collage, and stencil on Printmaking paper.
13" x19" / 2021
It was a long day.
Waiting time for mom
It was longer than the New York subway.
It was a long day.
Waiting time for mom
It was longer than those standing on the platform.
It was a long day.
Waiting time for mom
It was longer than my day.
by JIhoe Koo
: Sea breeze
Childhood Memories / edition 25
Digital Print, drawing with colored marker, photo collage and stencil on Printmaking paper.
13" x19" / 2021
: Call the sea
childhood Memeories / edition 50
Digital Print, drawing with colored marker, pencil, pen and photo collage on Printmaking paper.
19" x13" / 2017
I know that it's an unanswered question.
I shout out to the sea and ask.
The sea has no answer either.
The sea constantly makes a splash sound.
I take courage again and call the sea.
The sea has no answer either.
The sea comes to sllither up the beach like a living.
I finally cry out to the sea with all my might.
The sea has no answer either.
The sea only listens to my story silently.
By Jihoe Koo
: Let's fly!
Childhood Memories / edition 25
Digital Print, drawing with colored markers, pencil, pen, photo collage and stencil on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2021
: Mom, me and the child
Childhood memories / edition 25
By Jihoe Koo (2023)
The child sits next to the grandma stitching
on the sewing machine.
Watching.
Whenever the sewing machine chimes,
Whenever the sewing machine chimes,
the child is excited and claps to the beat of tings.
The grandma mends her daughter's clothes carefully
The grandma mends her daughter's clothes carefully
thinking of her daughter.
The daughter, who has become the mom of the child,
The daughter, who has become the mom of the child,
softly looks at the back of the old mother.
The child looks at me. His mom.
The child looks at me. His mom.
And I look at Grandma. My mother.
And the Grandma looks at her daughter.
She who became a mom.
: Mirrow in the snow
Childhood Memories / edition 50
Digital Print, drawing with colored markers, pencil, photo collage on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2017
On a snowy day,
Everything is dyed in white,
It is so tranquil that
my little breath can be heard in my ears.
The wohle world is so pure,
I will be a white lamb in there.
The snowfield becomes a mirror,
I come across another me.
"Who are you?"
I ask questions to another me.
By Jihoe Koo
: My friend, Joy!
Childhood Memories / edition 50
digital Print, drawing with colored markers, pencil, pen and photo collage on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2017
I have a friend. My friend's name is Joy.Who is Joy you ask? Joy is a tree.
Spring, Summer, autumn and winter, whenever the season, she brings me joy.
That is why I named her Joy.
Joy stays and watches over me. Joy does not move but she has fun with me.
Joy has a secret pocket. Joy helps to hide the acorns for the squirrels.
Joy has many friends. Ants, squirrels and birds all come to play with her. Joy is fashionable.
She has a cool light green outfit and decorative slections of beautiful apple tree blossoms in her hair
when Spring comes.
She has a dark green dress in the summer and with it she makes a relaxing waving shadow.
In Autumn, she changes to wear a beautiful dress with variety of colors as red, yellow, and orange.
And when winter comes, she makes me laugh with a naked brown figure.
One day when the snowstorm came,I was so worried that Joy would be cold.
The next morning, I rushed to the park in front of my house with my mom to meet Joy.
Joy smiled and greeted me with a shiny white dress from her head to toe.
Joy standing in a shite tranquility was so beautiful.
I thought Joy was like a princess in the snow.
Joy surprises me with new looks every time, and I like Joy so much.
By Jihoe Koo
: Out, not in
Childhood Memories / edition 25
Digital Print, drawing with colored markers, pencil, photo collage and stencil on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2021
You can move forward.
But you can not go back.
New York subway turnstile spin is like time.
By Jihoe Koo
: Red Stockings
Childhood memories / edition25
'Red Stockings' is inspired by the 1950s French film 'The Red Balloon'.
The story begins with a red balloon flying towards the window where a little child was standing.
The child and the red balloon do not audibly speak, but communicate through gestures.
However, the red balloon pops after being hit by a slingshot by neighborhood children.
Pascal, the little child, sees a balloon popped and is upset because he cannot save the red balloon.
He feels sad that he could no longer see the red balloon; his only friend.
But as if to console his heart, balloons of all sorts of colors gather and fly together
over the roofs of the city, Paris. As their strings hold onto little Pascal.
That’s how the movie ‘Red Balloon’ ends. The last scene remained in my mind for a long time.
As a mother, I thought of that scene every time I pushed the swing behind my children
and hoped that they would be able to look at the world with eyes and mind from high in the skies.
: Little girls with hula hoops
Childhood Memories / edition 50
Digital Print, drawing with colored markers, pencil, and photo collage on Printmaking paper.
19" x 13" / 2017
: Song of the butterfly
Childhood Memories / Voice of Spring waltz / edition 50
Digital Print, drawing with markers, pencil, pen and photo collage on Printmaking paper.
19" x 13" / 2016
: Dream of the blue bird
Childhood Memories / Happy encounter / edition 50
Happiness was neither dream nor fantasy.
It was not far from me.
It was right now.
It was not happy even if I could have the blue bird.
Even without the blue bird,
Happiness is to love my being.
It is the present time to challenge my life and take adventure.
Are you happy now?
By Jihoe Koo
: Hello city!
Childhood Memories / edition 25
Digital print, drawing with markers, pencil, pen, water color, photo collage and stencil on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2021
: Reciprocal
Childhood memories / edition 25
Digital Print, drawing with colored markers, photo collage and stencil on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2024
You and I caught
by the parks heavy rain
With a single umbrella
“Take it first!”
“You take it first!”
Passing the umbrella back and forth,
We end up drenched in rain.
And we giggle
and we dance
to the sound of the rain drops.
You and I, everything is different
We can't ever be the same
I'm not like you
You’re not like me
Our lives are upside down
Yet they cross
Perfectly perpendicular
However, just as we laugh
and just as we get drenched
We are one (1) with the same feeling.
Perfectly perpendicular
Like the reciprocal we learned in math.
by the parks heavy rain
With a single umbrella
“Take it first!”
“You take it first!”
Passing the umbrella back and forth,
We end up drenched in rain.
And we giggle
and we dance
to the sound of the rain drops.
You and I, everything is different
We can't ever be the same
I'm not like you
You’re not like me
Our lives are upside down
Yet they cross
Perfectly perpendicular
However, just as we laugh
and just as we get drenched
We are one (1) with the same feeling.
Perfectly perpendicular
Like the reciprocal we learned in math.
: My way
Childhood Memories / edition 25
Digital Print, drawing with colored markers, pencil, pen, photo collage and stencil on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2021
Wearing shoes that are bigger than my feet,
To go "MY WAY",
I go out to the road with pride.
Like a toddler, teetering back and forth
And taking uneasy steps on the road.
Wearing shoes that are bigger than my feet,
"This is MY WAY"
I walk on tired and gasping for air
"this is my way..."
Even though you have shoes that fit your feet,
Why do you insist on wearing shoes that are bigger than you?
By Jihoe Koo
: Luck Catcher
Childhood memories / edition 25
Digital Print, drawing with colored markers, pencil, pen, photo collage and stencil on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2021
When I stay in the garden, I feel good
when I see the yellow butterfly.
When I walk in the field, I feel good
when the yellow butterfly comes to me.
When I stroll in a flower field, I feel good
when the yellow butterfly accompanies me.
By Jihoe Koo
: Ami is mon amie
Childhood Memories / Walk along the path / edition 50
Digital Print, drawing with colored markers , pen, pencil and photo collage on Printmaking paper.
19" x 13" / 2016
: There it is!
Childhood Memories / edition 50
Digital Print, drawing with colored markers, pencil, pen and photo collage on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2017
Where do you think the child in the picture points?
There is a wall blocked in front of the child.
Sometimes the wall in that picture happens in my life.
what place is that child pointing out her hand?
Maybe after the dark and friustraing wall is over,
you can see a wide blue sky.
There will certainly be new hope where that child points.
By Jihoe Koo
: Let it go
Childhood Memories / edition 25
Digital Print, drawing with colored marker, pencil, pen, photo collage and stencil on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2021
Tell the children to let it go.
Children are eager to hold onto the ballon
string that is moving away from the tips of thier fingers.
After a long time,
My kids will be the balloon, and I will be the kids trying to catch the flying ballon.
By Jihoe Koo
: Sprout
Easter egg hunt / edition 50
Digital print, drawing with colored markers, pencil, paint on Printmaking paper
8" x 10" / 2011
: Blossom
Childhood memories / edtion 50
Digital print, drawing with colored markers, pen and photo collage on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2015
:Cuorisity
Childhood memories / edition 25
Digital print, drawing with colored markers, pen and photo collage on Printmaking paper.
13" x 19" / 2015
