INTRODUCTION−WHERE I AM NOW
In a letter she wrote to me for my nineteenth birthday, one of my closest friends told me that she seeks lasting things—my friendship with her being one of them. Many seasons have passed since this letter, yet my mind often returns to her words.
This website transformed catering to my everchanging curiosities, yet in many ways served to archive all that I was absorbing and digesting. Though the website underwent numerous changes, my appreciation for curiosity and in-betweenness and desire for a gathering space and connection stayed true throughout. These are the lasting things I seek—in art and people. Every iteration of this website was made with love and curiosity and executed with honesty, playfulness, and new learnings.
I hope this space continues to serve this flow, allowing me to circle back my learnings to the world I have learned so much from. This space will house various ideas that arise, sink, and pass through me—in the hopes they will last.
first written: July 2022
It is just a matter of time before everything that stands on the dirt will return to dirt. When I think of how I, and my paintings too, will also in due time be reduced to dust, it strikes me that nothing in this world is that tremendous. But at the same time, during the limited time that I have life here, I can keep a record, - all I can do is keep a record, day by day, that serves as evidence, as a trace of the flame that is my life.
Nature, however you look at it, is always unadorned, fresh, and beautiful. I wonder if my paintings could capture the beauty of nature. No, it would be impossible. Even so, I want to make paintings that, like nature, one never tires of looking at. That is all that I want in my art.
Yun Hyong-keun, 1976
In a letter she wrote to me for my nineteenth birthday, one of my closest friends told me that she seeks lasting things—my friendship with her being one of them. Many seasons have passed since this letter, yet my mind often returns to her words.
This website transformed catering to my everchanging curiosities, yet in many ways served to archive all that I was absorbing and digesting. Though the website underwent numerous changes, my appreciation for curiosity and in-betweenness and desire for a gathering space and connection stayed true throughout. These are the lasting things I seek—in art and people. Every iteration of this website was made with love and curiosity and executed with honesty, playfulness, and new learnings.
I hope this space continues to serve this flow, allowing me to circle back my learnings to the world I have learned so much from. This space will house various ideas that arise, sink, and pass through me—in the hopes they will last.
