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TRICHOMES

Illustrated Essay & Culinary-Based Research

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Root Vegetable

This project began with a simple curiosity: how to let Korean and Dutch kitchens speak to one another through the quiet languages of stems, leaves, and roots. It wonders how techniques carried in a grandmother’s hands might find new resonance in north-west European soil, and how memory can fold itself into unfamiliar ingredients until something both old and new begins to emerge. By making dishes such as soybean-based red beet pickle (장아찌 in Korean) and kohlrabi salad dressed with vinegar and red chili flakes (생채 in Korean), the work lingers on the small negotiations of taste, touch, and time that accompany every act of remaking. These gestures grow into illustrated essays—part recipe, part remembrance—recalling moments such as washing and trimming fragile vegetables with a grandmother, and tracing paths of knowledge passed through markets, seasons, and generations while articulating procedural skill alongside historical context. Here, the idea of transplantation stretches beyond cooking, becoming a way to think about how we take root in places far from where we begin: rooted in one place, learning to grow in another. The work ultimately aims to generate insights into how individuals navigating cultural displacement or intergenerational longing may access new forms of orientation and experiential understanding. Documentation will appear here as the work develops.

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TRICHOMES

Practice-Based Research & Game-Based Learning

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Bottari Exchange

Crafting Conversational Starters Together

This project began with a desire to create a space in Zwolle where people across generations could gather around the craft of asking questions. Each month, up to six participants meet to develop conversational card games: small, portable objects that carry prompts for reopening dormant connections or softening hesitations. While each participant builds a game of their own, the work is shaped by the circulation of collective knowledge that forms within the group. As they write questions and experiment with simple mechanics such as dice, turn-taking, or chance, the sessions attend to the quiet ways inquiry exposes not only personal histories but also the layered projections and inherited stories that surface in intergenerational encounters. In Korean, there is a word “응어리” that describes the knots of unspoken emotion that accumulate over time. Through careful listening, shared making, and the slow reciprocity of attention, Bottari Exchange hopes to create conditions where such knots may gently loosen (응어리가 풀리다), allowing participants to sense how understanding can grow not through confrontation, but through witnessing, resonance, and small shifts in relation. The sessions unfold as shared studios of attention, where participants learn not only from the instructional tools provided but also from witnessing one another’s thinking, reasoning, and wondering. These processes will culminate in a collectively authored card set and an accompanying organizational journal that traces the insights, patterns, and emergent forms of the group’s inquiry. The project ultimately hopes to cultivate a practice of asking, slowly, carefully, and together, as a way to reawaken connection, support intergenerational healing, and expand how we come to know one another. Promotion begins at the end of November 2025, and the first session will take place in January 2026.

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TRICHOMES

Practice-Based Research & Ecoprinting

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Weeding (Working Title)

This project takes shape through the ecoprinting of leftover muslin using weeds plucked from a neighborhood in Zwolle and fallen leaves gathered from the same streets and paths. Though the finished piece—a vest inspired by elements of Hanbok (한복 in Korean), the traditional Korean clothing, and intended to be constructed through the meditative technique of Korean quilt, Nubi (누비 in Korean)—appears straightforward, its development emerged through a spontaneous constellation of ideas that initially felt distant and unrelated. With the ecoprinting now completed, the forthcoming Nubi stitching invites its own period of slow, attentive work. The act of foraging weeds led me to sit with questions about the ethics of weeding and the complex emotions that accompany intervening in botanical life for aesthetic or practical ends. Working with Nubi revealed a procedural discipline whose quiet repetitions generate a sense of being held—an affective quality arising from attention, devotion, and the gradual embodiment of care. Muslin’s fragility introduced another layer of contemplation, as choosing to work with such a vulnerable material opened its own unresolved meanings. Taken together, the project unfolds as a form of meditative training—an inquiry into sensation, ethics, and the subtle ways making becomes a site for experiencing one’s own rootedness and tenderness.

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TRICHOMES

Practice-Based Research & Visual Essay

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Separation (Working Title)

This project begins from the experience of separation: the slow realization that patterns of behavior, beliefs, or relationships that once held a life together are loosening and leaving. It explores what happens when, instead of numbing or reasoning away such moments of disappointment or betrayal, one stays with the physiological and psychological sensations of being “ripped”—the tightness in the arms, the held breath, the shock that moves through the body. Guided by the image of wildflowers spilling along the edge of asphalt and the act of simply gazing at them, the work asks how attention to these fleeting sensory fields can support the process of letting go and sending things on their way. Through writing poems, making paper garments to be worn by performers, and developing sketches toward a film or series of short films, the project examines how separation can be staged, seen, and felt step by step. Rather than beginning from hypotheses to be proven, it proceeds from not knowing, allowing images, gestures, and materials to surface as companions in navigating transition. Ultimately, the work aims to offer insights into how people might process intense emotions and life changes more gently and deliberately, by inhabiting the full arc of feeling rather than avoiding it.

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TRICHOMES

Practice-Based Research & Performative Research

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Marsh Marigold

(feat. Collectief Imprography)

This project began with the Marsh Marigold, a plant thriving at the edges of polder land where soils meet and stability thins, first appearing to Youn while producing a series of improvisational performances that sought to bring diverse practices and backgrounds into a shared terrain, Improvisational Dance and Laboratory, produced by Collectief Imprography, based in Amsterdam. Drawn to its capacity to bloom in unstable conditions and to be quietly held by an ecosystem as fragile as it is resilient, she became curious about what it means—humanly and ecologically—to exist at a boundary. Instead of relying solely on human language through interviews or surveys, she turned toward the Marsh Marigold’s own modes of living, asking what “blooming,” “overwintering,” or detaching might mean for a plant negotiating its shifting environment. The work involves observing marsh ecosystems near Zwolle where she currently resides, building a multisensory apparatus that captures wind, sound, tactile vibration, and visual textures, and allowing scientific curiosity to guide how Youn makes sense of these phenomena. Emerging forms may include a sound piece, performance, or poetic essay that translates these ecological encounters into experiential insights. Ultimately, the project hopes to speak to those who, by necessity or choice, live across boundaries of practice or identity, offering the Marsh Marigold as a companion in learning how to navigate instability, recognize moments of knowing, and grow within shifting ground.

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