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			Juae Park regards her work as an embodiment of her personal struggles and wants. Throughout her life, she has turned such experiences into motifs for her artwork. Her previous works of cotton-stuffed canvas dolls depicting people she missed motivated by feelings of loneliness and alienation during temporary stays abroad. Her yearning for childbearing and motherhood inspired her ceramic works, which manifest this sentiment in a totemic form. Park has always been unreservedly open about her personal concerns, expressed across media and genres. Learning to work with and express herself through unfamiliar media and genres became a path for inspiration and means to overcome many of her concerns. In the beginning, Park was hesitant about painting. She was unsure. She kept it hidden.
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