Sometimes I want to untie the entire universe.

Untangle every knot of my morning ritual and nighttime routine

Inspect every colored thread of my friends, loved ones, teachers

Cut open every seam that seals my identity into a pretty shape

To undo it all and piece it back together with every particle of magic that settled like dust in the fabric

No more settled dust.

Raised between a mother from South Korea and a father from the Bronx, Cory Feder has always found herself amongst the in between of culture, identity and language. A storyteller at heart, she uncovers the magic hidden in the mundane by reweaving threads of her experience into a fence-less dialect. This excavation takes place in various mediums from drawing and sculpture to music and animation. Existing halfway between America and Korea, Feder has been explicitly marked as “the other”. Her stories explore how one’s relationship to the other is a mirror to one’s relationship to the self. Whether it’s between cities, material or the self and other, she operates from a space of perpetual transit, transforming meaning from both public mythologies and personal dreams to communicate in a form that is inclusive of all beings.

coryfeder@gmail.com