After leaving Korea for many years and having to quarantine myself due to the COVID pandemic, memories of my childhood came closer to me as objects of longing. For my work, I try to disassemble the elements of these traces from my past into new forms so that I can recreate and express this nostalgic beauty from the past and into the present.

My work explores the mystical relationship between time and its traces in nature and life. It reflects the memory from my childhood in Korea when I discovered a cave near my house with engraving of old letters, signs and patterns. The cave was a place where time seemed to stop for me in my youth and a special memory I wanted to express through my art.

The piece investigates the possibilities of an abstract language of form and the materiality of painting with its relationship with fibers. I developed my own felting technique by using felting wool and iron pressing with repeated layering. I call this technique “felt painting,” which creates a pastel-like texture and image. My methods and processes reveal internal and external landscapes from the past with embedded emotions.