I make things that hold on—even when we don't quite meet.

It takes different forms—painting, hanji, sometimes entire spaces—but always begins with the same feeling: that connection can remain without perfect alignment.

That idea has a name—Eotieum (엇이음). It grew from my family's experience of Korea's division, but has grown into something larger: the invisible ties that remain between people, places, and memories we can no longer fully reach.

You'll see it take shape through a checkered visual language inspired by traditional Korean lattice—lines that cross, drift, and never quite line up, but hold together anyway. Not despite the gaps. Because of them.

Each work belongs to the same world as my larger works, simply finding a different way to exist.

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