{"id":53594,"date":"2012-03-23T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=53594"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:22:03","slug":"senex12-jee-hye-kim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12-jee-hye-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Exhibition artist Jee Hye Kim &#8217;12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53744\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/senex12-jee-hye-kim\/kim-use\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53744\" class=\"wp-image-53744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Kim-USE.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Growth Operation&quot; (detail) from the 2011 series &quot;Genius Water Drinker&quot; by Jee Hye Kim '12. Oil and colored pencil on canvas.\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Kim-USE.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Kim-USE-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Kim-USE-144x107.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/03\/Kim-USE-134x100.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Growth Operation&#8221; (detail) from the 2011 series &#8220;Genius Water Drinker&#8221; by Jee Hye Kim &#8217;12. Oil and colored pencil on canvas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kim of Fort Lee, N.J., makes paintings and collages that depict imaginary worlds inspired by running water.<\/p>\n<p>For her, water symbolizes past &#8212; pumping spring water in her native Korea and crossing the Pacific to the U.S. &#8212; as well as present. &#8220;I started thinking about fluidity while still getting used to my identity as a Korean-American,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Having a dual identity meant that I had to alter my mode of thinking, often according to social circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/23\/senex12\/\">Return to the 2012 Senior Exhibition main story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim of Fort Lee, N.J., makes paintings and collages that depict imaginary&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53594"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119072,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594\/revisions\/119072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}