Korea’s bojagi is a traditional wrapping cloth, often pieced together from fabric scraps to create something new and whole. Inspired by this tradition, the Memory Cloth Kit invites participants to explore their identities, memories, and experiences through color and composition.

Each participant receives a set of bojagi pieces and arranges them in a pattern that reflects their life—where they come from, what they carry with them, and how they see themselves. Their arrangement is then used as a blueprint for a real, handmade bojagi, turning an individual story into a one-of-a-kind piece of cloth.

As more people participate, these individual patterns also come together digitally to form a larger collective bojagi: a shared artwork made from many different lives, places, and ideas of home.

The project later extended beyond the artwork through a collaboration with a local immigrant community center. Drawing from the same colors and patchwork language, we created bojagi pouches filled with simple, practical items for immigrants beginning a new chapter in Korea. In this way, the project moves from personal expression to collective artwork, and finally into something that can be carried, used, and shared with someone else.