Over the past decades, my creative research and practice have focused on overlapping and accumulating non-historical layers of everyday images that I capture from my surroundings. Based on the notion of living in the present, I focus on invisible and non-historical mundane moments and their movements in the present, which are constantly becoming the past. Seeing my parents work at their hardware store seven days a week and growing up in exclusively rural communities in South Korea, my art practice has been influenced to reflect the non-historical lives of people. Living as a person of color, as an Asian American in the States, I feel that part of my identity is quiet, unseen, and invisible by this culture. I am interested in capturing those present moments and rendering them visible on screen, constantly appearing, evolving, aging, disappearing, and repeating on said screen.
With racial and social context as a departure point of my practice, I employ time & labor-intensive meticulous techniques such as stop motion animation. I often compose print animations and multi-channel installations with hundreds of drawings and prints with sound. I explore the sound and movement of the figurative or abstract lines and silhouettes of everydayness in site-specific areas such as vacant storefronts and residential areas. I examine and research the relationship between non-historical and historical layers in the different geographical and cultural environments through which I have lived and passed between my two home countries, South Korea and the United States.