Our mothers, our water, our peace

2024-2025
Hand-blown glass vessels and local creek and river water
Commissioned by Flux Projects | Atlanta, Georgia

Our mothers, our water, our peace reflects upon Atlanta Asian communities’ resilience and love. In response to the escalation of Asian hate crimes during the pandemic followed by the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings, Gyun Hur illuminates this testimony of the irreversible changes that have taken place in the identities and stories we tell ourselves.

A constellation of 150 glass vessels will be housed amongst the Atlanta Asian communities. This array of installations intertwines as echoing and poetic nodes mapping grief and love in both public and private spaces. These hand-blown tear-shaped vessels hold local creek and river water from the Atlanta region and seed conversations around intergenerational work, healing, and community engagement through a series of workshops and gatherings.

Gyun will gather the glass vessels held by the communities for a year to create a large-scale installation that is open to the public in March 2025 in the spirit of remembrance, lamentation, and celebration.

Our mothers, our water, our peace is commissioned by Flux Projects and partially supported by The New School. We are grateful for the following organizations as our collaborating partners for the project: Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian American Advocacy Fund, Asian Student Alliance, and East x Southeast.

This work is a hymnal

This work is a tear

This work is a mother

This work is a future we don’t know

This work is now

This work is an archive

This work is remembering

This work is grieving

This work is a holding

This work is a gathering

This work is faith