In the work of LEE Eunsil, the experience following childbirth is portrayed as a demanding confrontation with nature, reminiscent of the trials faced by mythic figures in epic narratives. Seas and deserts, canyons and mountain ranges settings traditionally associated with the sublime and now more commonly encountered in science fiction films form the psychological landscapes through which the post childbirth experience is represented.
This approach draws on a longstanding tradition that aligns the maternal body with nature. At the same time, it turns that very mythology inward, pushing toward a fragmentation and dismantling of the maternal bodily schema. Bone and flesh are separated in a literal sense. As in nature itself, creation within the maternal body is inseparable from destruction.
