My artistic practice revolves around the repeated depiction of the motif of “flowers,” rendered through the most fragile and mundane of materials: paper. Through this, I aim to create sculptural records that visualize emotional structures and the temporality of restoration.
I describe myself as an ordinary person—someone whose life has been marked not by dramatic episodes, but by a quiet and consistent flow of emotions. Within this subtle rhythm of everyday life, however, emotions are folded, torn, mended, and made to bloom again. My work begins with the intention of observing this silent movement of feeling and leaving behind a repeatable form of it.
Paper, as a material, resonates deeply with the nature of such emotions. It is easily crumpled, torn, and vulnerable to moisture—easily losing its form. And yet, through repeated folding, the emergence of grain, and the formation of structure, it comes back to life. I began focusing on this very moment: the transformation of paper—a delicate material—into a structure of rebirth, layered with emotional time and human resilience.
In this sense, my sculptural language seeks not merely visual beauty or the reproduction of floral forms from nature. Rather, it approaches the act of composing and structuring emotion itself.
The paper flowers I create are born out of meticulous, repetitive manual labor—cutting, folding, assembling, and refining the materiality. This process becomes an act of emotional mapping, in which I read and reconstruct my own feelings through gesture. Once situated in the exhibition space, these sculptures are imbued with an entirely new context. I do not merely install objects; I construct a “place where emotions live”—through careful attention to the viewer’s eye level, lighting angles, and spatial intervals between each flower. Consequently, the paper flowers cease to be mere forms—they become a sensorial landscape that engages the viewer emotionally.
Crucially, although these works originate from my personal narrative, they offer ample space for the projection of the viewer’s own life and emotional experience. Collapsed but blooming again, fragile yet persistent—these works quietly express the universal cycles of emotion. Their silence is deliberate, and within that silence, I hope to create a deeper resonance.
My practice does not assert itself with dramatic statements. Instead, it quietly enumerates words such as repetition, restoration, emotion, sensation, and vitality. Life at times collapses and fragments, but the possibility of blooming anew—of emotional sustainability—is never trivial. My paper flowers are a testament to that reality.
In essence, my work borrows the exteriority of sculpture to weave an interiority of emotion. That delicate internal language ultimately leads us to questions that lie close to the essence of life itself.