Junsu Kim, Republic of Korea

Sense of Forest

2021

Vegetable tanned leather

300 × 300 × 620 mm

A creative response to Sense of Forest by Sarah Thomas

It had torpedoed down until all its edges were smooth. We read its journey in the lines on its form. It had gone down with such purpose that we did not know if we should bring it up again. It found a way to tell us that in order to go down it had to be brought up. It would stay above the surface for a while and then, if we agreed, we would take it to a place where it could dive.

Working with leather craftsmen in the Italian region of Tuscany left such an impression on artist Junsu Kim that he changed his material focus from metal to leather. A graduate in metalwork and jewellery at Kookmin University in Seoul, his work has been exhibited extensively in South Korea and shown in France and the UK.In 2019, he was one of the winners for the Cheongju International Craft Competition.