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For over ten years, I have been exploring the world around
me through drawing, photography, video, and mixed-media work. My work can
be thought of as an archeology of the moment: a visual document of some
details of everyday life, hopefully evocative enough to allow viewers to
imagine their own stories of how things came to be the way they are.
I'm interested in the everyday - in the things that we see
too often, and then forget to see. I try to pay attention to this sort
of detail wherever I go, in both public and private space. My work is
an attempt to make these things visible.
I am also interested in observing my own practice in undertaking such documentation,
playing with the tension between the apparent objectivity of the work and my
own subjectivity. Doing this has taught me that the way an apparently neutral
document is perceived depends vitally on the medium in which it is presented.
In turn, this has found me digging through the history of media technology,
returning always to my theme, but using the different constraints imposed by
each successive medium to cast it in a new light.
On this site I have uploaded images from 1999 to the present
under the heading of "Selected Work," so that you can see how my
work has changed. Much of this work has been shown in public, in exhibitions,
museum shows and art festivals, but some of it has not yet been. I plan to
upload more recent works as well in the near future. Please contact
me if
you wish to use my images.
I was born in Seoul, Korea, and spent much of my life there, before living
for quite a while in Japan (and then moving briefly to San Francisco). Now
I live and work in New York.
I received my BFA in painting from Ewha Womans University in Korea, MFA in
plastic arts and mixed media from Tsukuba University in Japan. (I had also
begun work towards a PhD in architectural preservation at Tsukuba, but resigned
the program.) Aside from my own projects, I worked on digital preservation
for the New York Public Library. And sometimes I design some small things or
do commercial illustration.
I would like to visit your part of the world, learn about
you and the place where you live. Thanks for your interest!