My art began not on a canvas, but on my face.
It grew from a serendipitous moment when music and art collided. In that moment, expression was no longer decoration, but conversation, a place where acrylics and charcoal, film and photography, typography and spatial design could merge with emotion to create new stories.
I keep experimenting.
I keep evolving.
I keep walking a path that unfolds as I go.
Parched Earth envisions a future where extreme heat and water scarcity have reshaped our world, with human figures whose skin and faces fragment into cracked, dry earth. A bottle of water priced at $100 punctuates the scarcity, turning a simple necessity into a symbol of survival and inequality. This video creates a sensory and emotional dialogue, showing that environmental devastation is not distant; it is a lived, embodied experience.
Frozen Climate imagines a world overtaken by extreme cold, a reality rendered inhospitable by climate change. Human figures, gradually succumbing to frost, are covered with cracked, frozen textures. By rendering these effects on human figures, the video emphasizes that climate change is not only a planetary issue; it is intimately linked to our bodies, our communities, and our shared future.
Polluted Ocean explores the intertwined suffering of marine life and humanity caused by reckless waste disposal. The video embeds marine creatures within mermaid-like human forms, creating a visual metaphor for the inescapable connection between ecological destruction and human vulnerability. This fusion of species highlights that damage to our oceans is not isolated; it reverberates through every aspect of life, directly impacting our survival.
Trace of What Remains
(2024)
On the surface, I seem fine. The wound appears to have healed. Yet beneath it, a faint scar remains.
This photographic series visualizes the invisible pain that time cannot erase. The black lines drawn across my face represent the scars we carry inside: fractures of emotion, traces of relationships, and the echoes of moments that once hurt. As I wipe the lines away, they blur but never disappear, just like memories that fade yet never truly leave us.
Through this work, I wanted to express that healing is not about forgetting, but about accepting the scar as part of oneself.
The Eye of Prayer (2025)
Acrylic and pen on wood panel_20.8x16.1
I believe the world is a treasure map drawn by God. The sky, land, sea, and all living creatures are hints of wisdom carefully placed to help humanity build a life in harmony with creation. But as human greed grew, we lost our way.
The eye has two meanings: it searches for hidden treasures across God's creation and prays to be guided back to the path we were meant to walk. Though our world is already damaged, we can open our eyes to the treasures God placed in this world, not to exploit them, but to honor them.
Cogwheel (2024) &
Growth in Time(2025)
Pencil Drawing on paper_20x15.4 &
Acrylic Painting on wood panel_20x14.2
When I opened the inside of a clock for the first time, I was amazed by how perfectly everything fit together, feeling both calmness and tension in its order and control.
In the second piece, I reimagined the dismantled parts of the clock as a seed. The cold gears and screws are reborn inside a golden shell, growing into a leaf that glows above a fading, greenish-gray city.
Together, the two works tell a story of transformation, from mechanical perfection to the possibility of life. Through this work, I wanted to show that technology and nature are not opposites but can evolve together.
Bicycle observation (2024)
charcoal on paper_19.6x14.9
A bicycle is something I use every day. It symbolizes the moment when effort turns into freedom. Through this piece, I wanted to draw not just what I see, but what I feel when I ride: the quiet breath of life that exists within motion. I used charcoal to capture movement and life within stillness because it can be soft and airy like wind, yet strong and heavy like metal.
Metamorphosis of Me (2025)
Acrylic and clay on wood panel_20.8x16.1
This work is a self-portrait using special effects makeup that connects to my earlier piece, Trace of What Remains, exploring how wounds, memories, and traces shape who I have become. The large flower on my cheek was sculpted from clay, the eyelashes and stamens were created from real floral elements, and the cracks across my face were made using prosthetic materials, representing how my scars transform into nutrients that help new parts of me bloom. The dragonfly resting on my face symbolizes this rebirth, hovering between fragility and strength, echoing the beauty that can emerge from imperfection.
Fragments of Balance (2024)
Acrylic on wood panel_25.7x20.8
This work is a self-portrait integrating both design and painterly elements. Surrounding symbols, including the scales, butterflies, flowers, and rainbow from the paintbrush, represent the balance in me. The dragonfly above symbolizes my curiosity and awareness, while the yellow background evokes warmth and unease, conveying the tension between harmony and chaos within me. Through contrasting realism and abstraction, this work expresses how identity is not fized by continuously reconstructed through experience, reflection, and connection with the world.
Typography Hanok (2024)
When I look at a hanok, a traditional Korean house made of wood, paper, and open air, I feel a deep silence that calms my heart. In this work, I built the hanok with words instead of wood: silence, reflection, freedom, balance, and hope, each carrying a piece of what I feel inside this space. Through this piece, I realized that a hanok is more than a house; it is a reminder of who I am, where I belong, and how I might carry peace and responsibility into the world I help to create.
Collage: Threshold of Time (2024)
This collage continues the story from seed & time, representing how fragmented moments evolve as I move through the world. The structure of overlapping frames creates both an entrance and an exit, with a grayscale tunnel holding uncertain glimpses of the future, while the clock drawing reappears like a quiet heartbeat. In this work, time is not a countdown; it's a landscape, and what may appear monochrome now is simply the foundation for color I have yet to create.
When Color Fades (2024)
When Color Fades visualizes the silent collapse of coral reefs, the moment when oceans lose their color, breath, and life. I used fragmented typography, "Color Collapse," to mirror the disintegration of coral bleaching, with each phrase acting as a breath that fades away. By collapsing words as corals collapse, I wanted to remind viewers that when color disappears, it is not only the sea that fades, but also our shared future.
Every AI Response Costs Water (2025)
This poster reveals the hidden environmental cost of artificial intelligence. Each AI response consumes water, as data centers use billions of liters each year to cool machines. The final line, "ChatGPT, how much water does this answer cost?" reminds us that even a single question carries a physical consequence. This piece urges reflection on the paradox of digital intelligence: the virtual world demands water in the real one.
The O of Landscape (2025)
I reimagined architecture as a lens that observes and connects nature, structure, and perception. The O rises, not as a mark upon the land, but as a continuation of it. As visitors walk along its curved slope, they experience space as motion, and standing at its center, one sees the O melt into the sky and field, revealing how architecture can exist without separation. The O of Landscape taught me that architecture, like vision, gains meaning not from what it builds, but from how it allows us to see.
Stepping Landscapes: Connecting
(2025)
In Stepping Landscapes, I explored how spatial rhythm can mirror the rhythm of the eye. By layering stairs and gardens, I designed a topography that moves as the viewer does, flowing, pausing, and reconnecting. Each step becomes both a physical and perceptual moment, blurring the boundary between observation and participation. For me, design is an extension of seeing, a process of translating observation into empathy and form into experience. This project taught me that architecture can be more than structure; it can be a language of connection.
FocusTime Map – Designing My Focus (2025)
Category: App / UX Design Tools: Figma, Procreate, Photoshop
I often study in different places, such as cafés, study halls, and libraries. After wondering where I focus best, I designed FocusTime Map, a mobile app that automatically records the time and location of each study session and creates a heatmap showing where I've focused the most. Instead of cold graphs, I used warm, shifting colors that change by time of day, reflecting the atmosphere of each study moment, with a simple interface featuring a large circular timer and a single "Start Focus" button. Through this project, I learned how design can translate everyday life into visual language, helping people understand themselves a little more deeply.
LookUp – Posture & Screen Distance Coach (2025)
Category: App / UX Design Tools: Figma, Procreate, Photoshop
As a typical high school student, I spent countless hours in front of my computer and phone. Over time, I noticed that prolonged close-range screen use strained my eyes and affected my neck posture. Realizing this wasn’t just my problem, I designed LookUp — a mobile app that helps users maintain a healthy screen distance and take short restorative breaks. LookUp visualizes posture and distance, translating body movement into a simple, color-based feedback system. Subtle reminders, countdown breaks, and weekly reports encourage long-term behavior change.