When the pandemic began, the Brooklyn-based artist Jamie Jiwon Park decided to change their practice and steer away from Western standards of painting. Born in Los Angelos to Korean parents, Park dove into the study of traditional Korean folk art. They wanted to use these practices to focus on working-class women and their labor, imagining how they engage with a changing technological and financial world. Park’s paintings are sown with physical manifestations of Korean culture—beads, mulberry paper, kimchi flakes, rice kernels—and contain images of financially-independent women preparing food at home and engaging in domestic tasks. 밥 먹었어? HAVE YOU EATEN celebrates the caretaker who loves herself as much as her family. —Clara Molot