The acts that take place at the dining table go beyond mere meals, serving as ritual moments that connect humans, objects, and spirits. In Korean eumbok culture, the food offered in ancestral rites is shared by the community, reinforcing divine blessings and social bonds. This practice is an important tradition in which memories and emotions are accumulated across generations.
This pattern work extracts motifs from the forms and symbols of eumbok food and reinterprets them as a tablecloth pattern. By visualizing the ritual significance of ancestral offerings and the communal bonds they represent, the project seeks to transform the everyday surface of the dining table into a space of memory and relational connection.