My works represent familiarity and alienation between people and their environment in the city. We constantly interact with typical sites of daily routine such as a Laundromat, a coffee shop a grocery store, a studio, a subway and a street. The interaction creates a sense of reality and a psychological map of daily life. Using woodcarving, painting and photo collaging, I draw the local places that contain emotional transition and compressed time of life.

I have worked in a direction all my own; conflating painting, sculpture, drawing and photography to create visceral, dynamic pieces that celebrate lived life in the City while performing impossible spatial and perspectival feats. My works will develop and exploit tensions between representational clarity and formal wizardry, presenting everyday scenes in dramatic and unexpected ways: buildings dive radically into space, denying the walls they are mounted on, streets swoop and swerve in a dizzying manner. My subject matter is mundane but my formal presentation of it exalts the everyday to the epic and the magical.

My experience of living in NYC as an immigrant artist fuels me to create my own city from memory and emotion. Although I live in New York City Physically, I feel like I reside in Seoul, Korea emotionally and mentally. The Change of location causes the change of language, culture, perspective, social ability and personality. Recreating streets and buildings of different cities with subjective eyes and personal experiences, the reconstructed cityscape represents the multilayered displacement of culture and the loss of time and memory. Using wood carving, drawing and painting, I create the exaggerated perspective of empty streets and buildings, giving an optical illusion somewhere between 2dimensions and 3 dimensions and creating a sense of alienation from the ephemeral reality.