Comforts of Home, 2019 by Sejin Park

Comforts of Home, 2019

By Sejin Park

In the face of ICE targeting the immigrant community, Comforts of Home uses embroidery as its medium, which is typically regarded as a domestic hobby. The text originates from Know Your Rights resources distributed by progressive non-profit organizations in order to raise awareness and empower the immigrant community. Though we assume that home should be a place of stability and comfort, the text on each embroidery hoop reminds us that many do not have the luxury of feeling safe in their homes. That luxury should be a basic human right, but cannot be afforded by the immigrant population who are subject to violence, intimidation, and forcible family separation and detention by our current administration. This crisis represents a regression back to the dire abuse of human rights in the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

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