I am a Korea born, designer turned artist. 

I have product development background in home fashion and textile print industries. I believe my experience of creating my own lines for years influences greatly in what I do now in days. I am also very into observing nature & gardening. They are inseparable for my creative process. I enjoy to take elements of what I see or hear, then convert, process and apply them to be something tangible. 

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Life seems to be often an overwhelming stream of thoughts, feelings and happenings. I try to catch each moment of “sparks” in that fast flow. I use various resources which feel appropriate for that moment. Then, the little spark that I caught in the flow becomes a celebration of blessings, souvenir of a curious journey, or sometimes, trophy for self-forgiveness and tombstone of a painful memory.  I believe the intension and process of creation itself also is a part of creation, it incubates strength. I simply create traces of my life but it anchors me down so I won’t be flooded away and it fuels me to continue moving forward.

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Recently, I’ve been working on abstract ceramic sculptures. They are reflective of my life experiences and meditations in regard to my cultural & religious background, immigrant life & motherhood. The Noah's Ark sculpture series started during my darkest time, in meditation of the biblical story of Noah. I projected myself into his daily endurance of labor and his endless wait while building an ark, which nobody believed. I imagined Noah's journey and the circle of life inside of his ark. I hand roll slabs, cut them into stripes, then reconstruct them into architectural forms, yet, with some organic feelings. I imagine each piece belongs to a stage of growth or change, just like everything in nature. I am especially attracted to linear natural forms such as mineral sticks, rocks, columnar joints, cliffs, tree branches, plant stems and how they are related in space & time. The repetitive routine of making these sculptures became like a ritual to cope with life: pulling a solid clay lump apart into stripes and then, putting them back together again into a new creation.

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