Exploring the Interior
2025
Plaster, 18 x 15 x 12 inch

A. My work begins with an exploration of the interior, focusing on the most useless and discarded things that remain hidden within. I collect materials that have completely exhausted their utility: animal bones, the motionless mechanisms of broken watches, and spent tea leaves left behind after the brew. To others, these are merely waste; but to me, they are vessels of time. Through the investigation of these obsolete forms, I document the memories they accumulated during their time of use.

B. Creating new forms using bone models is an act of revisiting the space of life after death. The resulting form simultaneously resembles a cake made to celebrate a birthday and a structure built to commemorate death. Through the making of this form, I evoke the concepts of life and death, birth and disappearance, at the same time.

By inviting these interconnected yet opposing ideas into a single space, I recall the memories we once shared and construct a place where the forgotten memories of the past can safely reside.