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Faculty of Design
Material Art & Design
Meet the Artist
Byori
Seo
Craft
“Looking to See, Seeing to Know employs craft as a method of communication manifested in a series of metal and ceramic talismanic objects serving as physical metaphors for familial relationships and the human condition of giving and receiving love.Material meditations vow to look closer, to see the wounded child within, to reach knowing–the pursuit of knowing the self, the other, in authentic, vulnerable fullness as the most profound expression of unconditional love. Actualizations of love having existed, permeating through memories previously gripped by the overwhelm of pain, reconcile the severance of the body from the spirit, individual from the collective, intuition from logic.I find my most sacred and true being living within; I call out to her, and we return to each other, clasped together in eternal embrace.”
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Byori Seo (b. 2000, Seoul, SK) is a multidisciplinary artist from Edmonton, AB, studying jewellery and metalsmithing in Toronto, ON. Her recent body of work comprises art jewellery, copper-smithed vessels, and hand-built ceramic forms created through intuitive tactile processes. Sensitive organic forms express a holistic consideration of objects as methods of sacred meditation and communication. Considering craft as a labour of love and care with the idea of tending to something over and over again, through the sharing of her work, she wishes to return all she has received from others, expressing deep gratitude and love for her world.
Jewellery/Metalsmithing Ceramics Sculpture Textiles
2024, Chosen Family
Toronto, ON
2023, Paraline
Toronto, ON
2022, Blueprint for a Collective Home
OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2023, Lily Yung Memorial Scholarship
OCAD University
2022, Lily Maley Scholarship
OCAD University
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Sculpture
03 I feel her living in you and I know she is the same as the one that lives in me
Jewellery
05 I reach and I reach and I forgive the girl who loves you (a part of you lives on in me forever)