Artworks 2020s
Reaching nearly 30 years of practice in visual art since college, my focus is still on our universe using myself and my life as a means to perceive its greatest wonder. I understand my being in the context of relationships of being connected as the following.
Everything exists in a relationship to others.
The relationships sustain the universe and form ultimate unity.
Unity comes with the understanding of relationships.
My work is a creative event of relationships that seeks this sacred unity.
All lives exist sustainably on the foundation of interconnected relationships. Over the years, I’ve come to erase the boundary between “I” and the rest. Air I inhale is from outside of my body. 60% of water inside my body is from outside of my body.
My works in recent years are again about this relationship and focus on its equilibrium. If any part missing or misplaced in the work, the whole composition would not function or collapse just as the extinction of bees will result in the shortage of food and collapse of the food chain. At the beginning of the 21st century, in our time of climate crisis facing the collapse of life on earth, and the current Covid pandemic, my work speaks about the universe intricately connected and brings attention to the way we consume, using the needleworks created with one thread connecting all parts, the recycled used vinyl with house paint on it, and fabric pieces woven with countless threads holding its structure.
22-04_Underneath what we see
Gouache, white pencil, nobang, collage on clay board
14.4 x 22.5 x 2"
2022
22-05_Underneath what we see
Gouache, graphite, needlepoint on clay board
20 x 22 x 2"
2022
22-06_Dust from Sahara Desert to Amazon_Interconnectedness
Gouache, graphite, collage, transparent fabric over a piece of punctured paper over clay board
15 x 25.5 x 2"
2022
This is based on scientific discovery about all beings are interconnected, and sustain life on Earth. From the dried-up Lake Mega-Chad in the Sahara Desert, 150 million tons of the fossilized remains are ground into fine dust and lifted up by the wind, and dropped in the Atlantic Ocean and Amazon forest yearly. In the Atlantic Ocean, planktons use it as a nutrient source, absorb carbon dioxide, and produce oxygen into the atmosphere. About half of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by the ocean phytoplankton. Furthermore, dust is dropped in the Amazon rainforest. Its infertile soil by constant rain and flood washing away the nutrients is replenished by this dust. Amazon rainforest is called the “lungs of the planet” because they draw in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen.
22-02_About value
M/M(printed fabric, recycled vinyl with house paint on, gouache, and collage)
25 x 25 x 1.5"
2022
22-03_What sustains life; diversity; connected in relationship
M/M(Remnants of various fabric pieces sewn together)
26 x 44 x 1.5"
2022
22-01_Threads underneath what we see
The backside of the fabric stretched over 3 canvases
24 x 47.5 x 2" (variable size in accordance with the compositions)
2022
21-05_Interconnected_Healing
Gouache, spray paint, pencil, concentrated watercolor ink, crochet on nobang and clay board
14 x 11"
2021
21-06_Interconnected_Healing
Gouache, spray paint, pencil, concentrated watercolor ink, crochet on nobang and clay board
14 x 11"
2021
21_02_Interconnected_Healing
Light+shadow, gouache, and collage on layers of nobang(Korean transparent-colored silk)
20 x 22 x 2"
2021
21-01_Healing_Connectedness
Light+shadow and recycled vinyl with house paint in a plexiglass box
21.5 x 21 x 3"
2021
20-04 Healing _Redefining boundary
Light+shadow, gouache, Korean ink, and collage on layers of nobang(Korean transparent-colored silk) over the plexiglass box
14.5 x 14.5 x 3"
2020
20-07 Interconnectedness
Light+shadow, gouache, and collage on layers of nobang(Korean transparent-colored silk
20 x 16.5 x 2"
2020
20-06_Healing _Interconnectedness
Light, gouache, and nobang on clay board. A piece of needlework balanced and supported by 4 rectangular panels.
28 x 32 x 4"(The size of this arrangement.) The arrangement is variable and size is variable.
2020
20-09_Healing _Interconnectedness
Light, gouache, collage on silk mounted over a 3" deep plexiglass box.
13.5 x 15.5" x 3"
2020
20-01 Healing _Redefining boundary
Gouache, Korean ink, gold leaf, graphite pencil, and collage on paper
14 x 14 x 2"
2020
20-02 Life_Self-organizing
Light+shadow, gouache, and collage on layers of nobang(Korean transparent-colored silk) and cotton fabric
14 x 16 x 2"
2020
20-05 Healing_Interconnectedness
Light+shadow, gouache, pen, and collage on paper and Nobang(Korean transparent-colored silk)
33 x 22 x 2"
2020
20-03 Life_Self-organizing
Light+shadow, gouache, and nobang(Korean transparent-colored silk) on paper mounted over the wooden panel
21 x 23 x 5" (changeable size for variable composition with the layer of nobang)
2020
21-03_Interconnected_Healing
Light+shadow, gouache, and collage on layers of nobang(Korean transparent-colored silk)
15 x 13 x 5"
2021
Upper piece of 21-04_Interconnected_Healing
Lower piece of 21-04_Interconnected_Healing
21-04_Interconnected_Healing
Light+shadow, gouache, and collage on layers of nobang(Korean transparent-colored silk)
60 x 33 x 3"
2021