My work explores the human desire for belonging,
a delicate pursuit haunted by mirage-like symbols of love and recognition.
I trace emotional architectures built from repetition and the longing to be seen, mapping how we perform closeness while bracing for loss.
As a Korean woman, I speak through quiet resistance,
where tenderness becomes inquiry and visibility slips into illusion.
Affection becomes a negotiation; comfort disguises vulnerability. Connection shelters us and watches us at the same time.
Through painting and mixed media,I work with surfaces that remain thin and exposed;
where a sudden, deliberate mark can land like a held breath.
Rather than building heavy layers, I allow each gesture to stand alone, revealing intimacy as a single moment of risk.
Each work is a held breath,
a brief interruption within the tension of our current social surface,
inviting a quiet question about how we might still reach for closeness without erasing ourselves.