Ema Shin

www.emashin.org

Women have both many issues and pleasures with the organ represented by Ema Shin’s hand-woven tapestry Soft Alchemy (Womb for Everyone). From this organ women experience menstruation, child birth, menopause, contraception and more. In some countries women are not permitted to control their bodies and must face complex social situations, decisions and consequences determined by others. A woman’s body should belong to herself. Through this work I would like to send a feeling of warmth and positive care to everyone.

Body organs are important symbols of life which represent many emotions. These shapes that are central in my artwork represent fertility, sensitivity, and femininity.