"The Boy Who Chases the Rainbow"

Ye Seom (Seomy) Ahn and Samuel Ezra Fisch collaborate in The Boy Who Chases the Rainbow, an allusion to a Korean short novel about a young boy on a journey to catch a rainbow. Utilizing the language of architecture and cartography in the form of mazes, puzzles, and toys, their work explores the act of searching through creative exploration and interactive play.

On his way he saw a lot of boys. Some people were disappointed that they could not catch the rainbow and went home. Some people were delighted with the roof tiles [reflecting the rainbow]. And the other suffered from physical and mental fatigue, crying in despair and pain.

“Oh, the rainbow! It shall not be caught by the hand of man!”
Dong In Kim, Rainbow
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Ye Seom (Seomy) Ahn is a Chicago based artist primarily working with woven textiles, architectural drawings, and moving images. She received her MFA in Sculpture (2019) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a recipient of Municipal Art League Fellowship (2019). Ahn is currently a co-founder and co-director of artist-run space, Ground Level Platform. She has exhibited her work in Chicago, IL, Hiketa, Japan, and Los Angeles, CA.


Samuel Ezra Fisch makes artwork focused on audience participation. In 2015, Fisch co-founded fat City Arts, an artist co-op in Chicago. In 2017-2018 he taught painting and sculpture at Central Oregon Community College. Fisch is a currently a co-founder and director of Ground Level Platform, a Chicago based interactive art venue. Fisch has shown work in Brattleboro Museum, The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and currently in the 2019 Chicago Sculpture Exhibit.