[Stolen Fields] series (2025)
a series of botanical illustrations featuring four species (garlic, barley, cockscomb flower, and violet) with excerpts from Korean poet Yi Sang-Hwa’s poem “Does Spring Come to Stolen Fields”
ink and oil on hanji (korean mulberry paper)
"Give me a hoe in my hand, I want to step on this soft soil, like a plump breast, Even if my ankles ache, and to shed some good sweat."
"Thank you, well-grown barley field, With the gentle rain that fell past midnight last night, You've washed your hair like a beautiful maiden's, and even my head feels lighter."
"Butterfly, swallow, don't be coy. You should greet the cockscomb, and the wild flowers too. I want to see those fields again, where people with castor oil on their hair were weeding."
"With my whole body bathed in sunlight, I walk towards the place where the blue sky and green fields meet Along the narrow path through the rice paddies, like a parting of the hair, as if walking in a dream." "This is now someone else's land – does spring still come to stolen fields?"
[Family Portraits] series (2024)
A series of ink drawings using illustration and storytelling-inspired language to meditate on themes of intimacy, violence, stewardship, and sustenance in surreal and fantastical scenarios.
Made as part of an art book called “Family Album”
Misc drawings and sketches (2021-2025)
sketch, pen on paper (2025)
profile of nora, ink on paper (2025)
halmoni, pen on pronto plate (2022)
moni, ink on paper (2022)
charlie, graphite on paper (2021)