Eunseok Han


Eunseok Han completed an MFA in Metal Craft at the Dongduck Women's University in Seoul and studied drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the USA. Eunseok is interested in the natural environment and has recently made small efforts to protect the environment by making jewelry out of recycled cans.


Her work began with our daily life full of disposable items. The disposables we meet every day are considered as non-precious materials and are used only once then discarded. Generally, diamonds, gold, and silver are great materials of jewelry. On the other hand, disposable cans and plastics have been considered inadequate materials for art and jewelry.  However, Eunseok thought she could make beautiful contemporary art and jewelry with non-precious materials, even with the discarded materials. In addition, disposable products are considered one of the main cause of environmental pollution. Even though we have a good recycling system in place, the environment is gradually polluted, the earth is warming, and the water temperature rises. As a result, many living things are threatened their lives. She uses discarded aluminum cans to express the beautiful colors of coral that are gradually disappearing due to the pollution. She hopes that both disposable cans and the corals could stay alive with us for a long time. As an artist, Eunseok continues to create a various art work out of the recycled aluminum cans in a small effort to do her part.