Statement
My prints, paintings, animations, and installations feature fictional creatures with human characteristics — non-human proxies that simulate human experiences. Through the imaginary environment they are born and reside in, my work metaphorizes physical, emotional, and sensory experiences of survival of human and non-human species while delving into visual research of material imagination.
To express such experience, I delved into the research of the internal system to process the outside world, the system that conditions the mode of perception and the status of entities. Observing how our cellular and perceptual states interact and change according to the outside world, this research bifurcated into further exploration of anatomical and biological features of organisms and sensory organs and poetic narratives that aid in internalizing the experience of reality. By depicting speculative scenarios utilizing imaginary creatures conceived based on anatomical images or biological features of humans, animals, and plants, my work aims to recuperate the experiential quality of our lives and invites poetic interpretations of the existential question of survival in the world surrounding us.
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