Artist's Note

In my twenties, two deaths of my brother and my student left me with indelible scars, which hurt me so badly because they didn't complete their lives as they were expected. After that, I was trapped by guilty feelings that I might have stayed around them as a spectator. If I could have read their painful minds, if I could have perceived their desperate gestures for help, could I have saved them from the tragic ending? My work began with this heartbreaking memory.

Although suffering from making the emotions triggered by agony into an art work, I was able to get out of the strong feelings of guilt for a while only when I was working on it. So I am expressed as someone who wallows in self-pity in my works.

Expressing others' sadness is not different from sympathizing their agonizing heart. Empathic language that flows under the bridge connecting me and the object is created as another medium, which also becomes a bridge to link between the audience and me, the object, themselves.

'Scars' are not beautiful. They give us sorrow, pain or even despair. But everyone has experienced that sort of feeling, and it leads us to feel sorry to see others hurt. I think this makes people look beautiful. I want to express them through my work.