Technique, medium: Flameworked, Borosilicate Glass
Height (cm): 61, Width (cm): 46, Depth (cm): 46, Photo Credit: Arthur Chen
Boxes with the organic form of the tree which becomes a metaphor for the self -- reaching, climbing, singing, and striving.
Korean-born glass artist Eunsuh Choi is something of a portrait artist, whose flameworked pieces are personal narratives, portraits of her own moments of growth. Eunsuh Choi’s is the archetypal immigrant’s tale run through the artist’s filter. Choi arrived in the U.S. having already completed a Master’s degree in glass but determined to pursue further glass education. She chose the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) as a place where she could both study English and earn a second MFA degree in glass. Eunsuh Choi uses flameworking techniques to create objects and installations composed of intricately fused glass threads. 
A Maternal Instinct Flameworked, Borosilicate Glass Variable
Sitting in diligent concentration behind a small torch, she bends and joins thin glass rods into complex arrangements and systematic structures evoking the textiles she studied in Korea. Today, the artist forms countless tiny glass rods into a cube composed within a perfect hexahedron. Eunsuh works her way through a psychological journey that juxtaposes aspiration and limitation; meanwhile, the forms in her art shift to reflect the mental work. She has produced a succession of melting icicles, ladders, cages, boxes, and trees. “In my current work I combine a box with the organic form of the tree. 
Progression I Flameworked, Borosilicate Glass, Silver 8* 8* 10 in
The tree becomes a metaphor for the self -- reaching, climbing, singing, and striving. I place the tree inside the box, a cage with triangular symmetrical shapes as the object that lives and breathes and has the capability of growing or dying. It represents my struggle inside the box of my existence when, as a foreigner and woman, I come across limitations on the attainment of my dreams. Choi has been working glass for 12 years and has broad knowledge in all aspect of glass. Choi’s work has been featured in a number of magazines, including Art Buzz, New Glass Review, Neues Glass, The Club Quarterly, Niche, The Flow, Emerging Glass Artists (Korea), Luxury, Baltimore Style, American Craft, and Profitable glass(upcoming). All of these venues are competitive except for the American Craft magazine and Profitable glass, for which she was nominated as a searchlight artist by the American Craft Council.
