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Conversation I visualizes an inner dialogue between my past, present, and future selves. Each panel represents a stage of life—youthful openness, present confinement within Korean cultural boundaries, and a future state of liberation. Using hanji, traditional pigments, and mother-of-pearl, the work connects personal transformation with cultural identity, reflecting on time, memory, and self-renewal.
This multimedia work depicts my pregnant self, exploring the intimate bond between my body, the new life within me, and the universe. Through layered textures and materials, it reflects both the physical and emotional resonance of creation, showing how pregnancy connects the personal and the cosmic.
This artwork depicts my colorful dream set against the dynamic sky, alongside my other dreams that align with societal expectations. This colorful dream is not parallel to other dreams flying in different directions at a lower altitude, symbolizing its struggle.
In this multimedia work, I combine oil paint, fabric, pine tree elements, and thread to reflect the dual nature of my childhood—its pain and its persistent hope. Each material carries symbolic meaning: fabric as softness, thread as connection, pine as resilience, and oil as memory. By weaving these textures together, I revisit early experiences that shaped me, acknowledging both the wounds and the strength that grew alongside them.
I painted my eldest daughter standing beneath the sunlight filtering through the forest, just before she left for college. Her form is rendered in ink, but her dress is made from a piece of handmade paper. That textured paper holds the weight of my hands and the fragility of the moment — a small gesture of care layered onto her emerging independence.