question: how else to erupt how else to churn through daily sickness how else to carry what is not mine how else to lean in closer to feel the molting heat how else to get burned how else to watch the grass grow back how else to plod like fire ox how else to chew cud how else to eat 3 times a day
answer: 꼬박 꼬박 챙겨먹으면서, 입맛에 안맞는 날에도 먹으면서, 그렇게
translation: making sure you eat regularly, consistently, eating even on the days when you don’t have the stomach for it, like that
j.h. is a queer and trans person of the korean diaspora. in their multi-medium creative practice, they are interested in exploring and portraying the connections, overlaps, and relationships between intergenerational and personal trauma, inheritance, land, food, bodies, translation, and queerness. j.h.’s work has appeared in kitchen work and arkana, and they have a poem appearing in santa fe literary review’s upcoming issue, “bloodlines: lineage, inheritance, and legacy.” they were also a public ceramics fellow in 2024.
