Artist Statement
Nobody can live alone. We all interact with someone in some way. Whether it’s family, friends, colleagues, or even just a supermarket owner in the neighborhood, we interact with people in simple yet complicated ways. In other words, social interactions and relationships have become more diverse than they had been in the past.

In reality, however, we choose whether to partake in a relationship or not depending on our own standards and purposes. While it has become easier to reach out to others thanks to the advent of social networking services, just because there are more ways and means to form a relationship available now does not mean it will be fruitful and long-lasting. Since there are so many different interests involved and relationships easily formed, sometimes we tend to experience or overlook irrational or unhealthy relationships or contradictions.

People have been a constant theme among my past works, which express emotions and feelings entailing various social interactions in my own point of view. I used to try to convey visual messages through rather dark themes like social issues just a few years ago, but now I tend to focus on the pure feelings I have at the moment.

I talk to my paintings when I work.

After selecting a controversial issue or a situation involving someone in a close relationship with me, I push aside or sometimes even shut away reason as much as I can and extract only my honest feelings. As I look back on the issue or conversations, I naturally find myself talking with my painting even before I realize.