ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My creative work evokes a diary-style assortment of memories, similar to The Diary of Anne Frank, through quintessential handcraft practices. Subsuming a diverse spectrum of mediums, such as painting, installation, graphic design, and sculpture, I recall my sentiment and notion to remediate personal experiences by utilizing quotidian yet, significant objects in my compositions - the blanket my nanny held me in. A rose is a symbolism that delineates my conceit while ordinarily found items in the matter that barricade tape or houseplants exemplify profound influences of myself. I reckon of my large-scale installations as encompassing a composite space or three-dimensional element, consisting of linear materials, to effectively underline and transform a prosaic vacant space to achieve an immense and sumptuous atmosphere. 

A plethora of my compositions particularly focuses on present endemic issues in society – mainly the pandemic outbreak and racism. The World I am Living in comprises dark shade oil painting, depicting the ruinous environment we are abiding in, on a canvas of two contrasting cats to juxtapose two distinct ethnicities, Korean and Chinese. The usage of barricade tape purports that violent racism and prejudice still discreetly exists and conveys a message that the society needs to comprehend to conclude this issue; however, the viewer’s analysis is ever so necessary to fathom the implication of this drawing. Way Back Home is a sculpture of the deceased African American man, who underwent an agony of partisan exertion, that commemorates the unfortunate occurrence and accentuates the depraved human tendency as the piece is simultaneously emblematic, abstract, and dynamic. As written, my goal is to portray the perpetual prominent social issues from my viewpoint to communicate with the audience and feasibly acquire the rights of humanity.

A myriad of my art structures value and emphasize artisanship; consequently, I employ conventional and orthodox methods, which include drawing, painstaking, molding masks, etching individual lines, and building sculptures that communicate with optical and tactile qualities embedded in a mural or flat surface. As modern artists proceed to neglect and abandon the hitherto old-fashioned art techniques, the contemporary creations will present impressions devoid of sense and content. As a result, many of my particular paintings are manual to preserve both the patrician and plebeian sentiments of nostalgia. One of my projects, Birth/ Death, consist of surrealist ideas and depict intricate natures of everyday life in a hyper-realistic way to further explore and convey my notion of humanity and life by presenting a delightful neonate in between an uncanny splintered egg(skull). My objective with art is to record and kindle the memorable, historic sensory experiences and reminiscences of the audience from every so often digitized world by using traditional fabrications and constructions.