"Bambi, Wounded"
My Own Private Rodeo (2023)
In these new works, Park is questioning "What does it mean for myself to exist in a way that my elders weren't allowed to?" Navigating the world in a body that has been desecrated, reclaimed, brutalized, and empowered. These works move through feelings of grief, mourning, loss, pride, redemption, and play.
It is in the deepest place of isolation, where Park finds a site where they are their personal spectator of their own pain - their own transformation. A rodeo of aching glory: where they are the hunter, the hunted, the bull, and the rider.
