I have always had a desire of finding a permanent home and end this nomadic life. Everywhere I have lived was meant to be temporary, and even those homes that I believed permanent turned out to be impermanent, which is the reason why I started feeling temporariness from homes. Then, I began to appreciate and remember outside views through windows more than what is inside a room.
A window acts as both a connection and a disconnection from inside to outside. The outside environment changes the atmosphere of the interior, but the window creates a borderline between the exterior and interior. Most of my works are very quiet and slow-paced. I prefer not to use strong and bright colors which can distract the viewers’ eyes from looking into the details. I value the sense of analog and interaction, which lead me to create interactive works with a variety of materials that can be either touched or viewed differently based on the point of view.
My cultural identity plays a major role in my artworks. My inspirations are from traditional Korean houses, hanok, and geometrical patterns of hanok window lattices. I recreate the views from my memory of those "temporary" homes and develop them with imagery of windows. The windows act as a filter of viewing, but also create a space—a safe area where I feel secure. Thence, I wish the viewers experience similar feelings through my works.