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 then, yet her words often return to me.
This website began as a space to explore my ever-changing interests, but it has also come to serve as an archive of all that I have absorbed and digested. Though the site has undergone many transformations, my appreciation for curiosity, in-betweenness, and the desire for connection has remained constant. These are the lasting things I seek—in both art and people. Every iteration of this website has been created with playfulness and curiosity, executed with much care.
I hope this space continues to honor my desire to learn—and allow me to circle back my learnings to the world that has taught me so much. Here, I aim to hold ideas that arise, settle, and pass through me—in the hope that 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 then, yet her words often return to me.
This website began as a space to explore my ever-changing interests, but it has also come to serve as an archive of all that I have absorbed and digested. Though the site has undergone many transformations, my appreciation for curiosity, in-betweenness, and the desire for connection has remained constant. These are the lasting things I seek—in both art and people. Every iteration of this website has been created with playfulness and curiosity, executed with much care.
I hope this space continues to honor my desire to learn—and allow me to circle back my learnings to the world that has taught me so much. Here, I aim to hold ideas that arise, settle, and pass through me—in the hope that they will last.
