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BEYOND THE OCEAN
BEYOND THE OCEAN is a series that visualizes the flow of time, memory, and existence through the ever-changing image of the sea. Fragments of light scatter and gather like water, wind, and waves, gently sweeping across the surface. The sea becomes a mirror of the inner self, and the work quietly records the flow of emotion and traces of time through the language of light.
BEYOND THE OCEAN – WAVE / ETERNAL FLOW
This series visualizes the moment when invisible flows emerge in the form of waves. Organically connected fragments of light form ripples that move with varying rhythms, amplitudes, and textures—each wave carrying the breath of a singular moment in time. Where inner and outer flows converge, the movement extends beyond the frame, and its delicate motion pulses with vibrant life.
BEYOND THE OCEAN – THE MOON / MOONLIGHT
This series captures the quiet boundary where moonlight meets the sea, held within the form of a moon jar. Its rounded shape becomes a universe of cyclical time and layered memories. The trembling light that flows across the curved surface scatters, gathers, and quietly shimmers. Even in darkness, the inner universe continues to breathe—gently revealing itself through this silent rhythm.
INTERSECTION
This series deconstructs and reconfigures scenes of landscapes and daily life found in Korean mother-of-pearl art from the 1950s to the 1990s, expanding them into a new visual language. Within a flow where tradition and contemporaneity, reality and fiction, presence and absence intersect, historical imagery undergoes fragmentation, recomposition, and transformation—giving rise to new narratives where time, memory, and culture coexist.
BLOOM
Inspired by Jang Seung-eop’s plum blossom paintings from the late Joseon Dynasty, this series captures the fleeting moment of full bloom through abstract rhythm. Petals fall like stars, scatter like blossom rain, and dissolve into waves of light and motion. Boundaries blur, and shimmering layers unfold across fields of color. In this painterly dialogue where past and present resonate, each blooming gesture becomes a language beyond time.
OBLIQUE
Inspired by urban architecture, this body of work explores a new spatial rhythm through shifts in perspective and geometric composition. Onto asymmetrical structural forms, Korean scenes are inscribed—transforming each object into a unique terrain where narrative flows through a balance of ornament and utility, free from fixed viewpoints.
GOT
This object reinterprets the traditional Korean hat, gat, by layering delicate textures—strand by strand—onto a conical and disc-shaped structure, embodying the flow of light. Once used to shade light, the gat now reveals it. Within a rhythm of repetition and balance, the sensibilities of tradition and modernity are woven into a single flow.
