When I visited Hong Kong, I was puzzled because I couldn’t read the menu. I thought of my grandmother who couldn’t read and write, so I followed her to the Hangul class for seniors. The class was filled with ladies. What prevented these women from receiving an education? I started recording the lives of my grandmother and her classmates, and found they had recorded their childhood in their own ways, neither on a piece of paper nor at the tip of tongue. They were records t...
more
When I visited Hong Kong, I was puzzled because I couldn’t read the menu. I thought of my grandmother who couldn’t read and write, so I followed her to the Hangul class for seniors. The class was filled with ladies. What prevented these women from receiving an education? I started recording the lives of my grandmother and her classmates, and found they had recorded their childhood in their own ways, neither on a piece of paper nor at the tip of tongue. They were records that some knew, and some did not.
less