My sculptures explore the fallibility of memory. The gap between reality and memory is expanded where memories are fragmented and reconstructed, while also being manifested in various forms. I visualize the variations of memory that were manifested in this process while focusing on the uncertainty and plasticity that surround it.

I investigate the potential within the memory’s uncertainty through various materials such as steel, wax, acrylic, and wood, media that range from everyday objects to industrial resources. I transform these materials into defamiliarized forms by expanding their shapes, textures and materiality. As an example, I use wire as a drawing tool in space, expanding its potential through its ability to be freely transformed while retaining its form. This journey blurs the boundaries between the known and the unknown, creating new forms of language for my artistic world.

I realized that while digital media record a moment, they fail to fully recreate the sense of memory, and so I chose an analog approach that relies on my own memory and emotion. Especially in Piece of Memory, geometric shapes are created entirely from shifting memories, with some exaggerated and others omitted depending on the intensity of the emotions experienced. This gap between reality and memory acts as a bridge connecting the world of imagination with the physical world, leading me to an exploration that constantly raises questions about the commonplace. Works I’ve reconstructed into unique, figurative forms build their own world based on incomplete memories woven within each project. As audiences navigate these distinct worlds across works of various sizes, they are invited into the stories surrounding both the work and myself. This intervention ultimately expands the story further, creating new layers of meaning.