Camille Lenning <\/strong>| \u00a0Entertainment Editor<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n All artists deserve a place to showcase their work, and Western art and design adjunct professor Sung Eun Park has found one in the Well Well Projects gallery in Portland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Well Well Projects was founded by artists in January 2021 with the goal of giving local artists an exhibition space they can control. All 12 members pay a small fee to use the gallery, which resides in the Oregon Contemporary \u2014 a popular art center in Portland\u2019s Kenton neighborhood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Park\u2019s exhibition, \u201cThe Inevitable Shadow,\u201d is shared with artists Alyson Provax and Kelda Van Patten, and examines nostalgia, longing and death, with a focus on how the pandemic has affected these themes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Park works primarily through sculpture and mixed media art, and her piece in the gallery, called \u201cDressing Room,\u201d is part of a bigger series she has been working on over the last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe ongoing series that I\u2019ve been working on is an investigation into \u2018good death,\u2019 a reflection of mortality \u2014\u00a0the inevitable shadow that forces us to accept the prospect of death,\u201d Park said of the series, \u201c(life and death) is kind of like a coin, and a coin has two sides.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The inspiration for \u201cDressing Room\u201d came from the Netflix docuseries \u201cThe Casketeers,\u201d which follows the daily lives of M\u0101ori funeral directors in New Zealand. In this funeral home, there\u2019s a room called the dressing room, where bodies are clothed for funeral services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This final moment between death and burial intrigued Park, and she began to wonder about the different connotations to the act of \u201cdressing.\u201d Doctors dress wounds to heal them, we dress ourselves before we begin our day \u2014\u00a0Park examines the similarities between these actions and how people prepare for the inescapable end.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen the body passes through the dressing room, it heals all the wounds it suffered during the life journey,\u201d Park writes in her artist\u2019s statement. \u201cBefore the body disappears, it puts on new clothes and, once again, starts a new journey.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Inevitable Shadow\u201d will be open for viewing on Saturdays and Sundays between noon and 5 p.m. until Feb. 27. Find the Well Well Projects gallery at 8371 N Interstate Ave. #1. <\/span><\/p>\n Contact the author at howlentertainment@wou.edu <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Western art professor examines death in new…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\")
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