Contemporary visual culture informs my work. Internet based “flatforms,” ranging from social media to Youtube, permeate our contemporary world. As you will see in this project,  “Watching,” responds to the ways our thought process and lifestyle are dominated by visual imagery and viewing the lives of others. We watch streaming media, social media, and the internetnever knowing what is true or fake. We believe what we want to believe or what we are told to believe. Our individual identity is lost, hidden, or disguised, and artificially generated digital personas seduce us visually while manipulating our decision making. In “Watching,” our bodies are gone and only our eyes remain, endlessly watching the internet world to be consumed and provoked.
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I utilize print media as a base for image making and creating multiples. Through the multiplicity of print I create a print + installation, called “printstallation.” I carve lino blocks to create a variety of eyes, and I print the eyes on textiles. After my images of eyes are printed on fabrics, I use the prints to create two-sided soft sculptures, giving additional dimension. The hundreds of sculptural eyes become a large-scale installation. I create a scene containing nothing but floating eyes to represent our current visual culture that is overwhelmingly based on the internet flatform. ​
 
In contemporary visual culture highly stylized images of food have become ubiquitous.  I explore the ways we use social media to express human desires such as taste, smell, and touch in a visual format. Images of food have become one of the most popular types of content created globally for social media. People enjoy images of food on social media because they are visually appealing. However, those images reveal not only what we eat from day to day, but where we eat, our social class, our taste, what gives us pleasure, and what we think gives others pleasure. With advancements intechnology, ever more attractive food images draw our attention, and our aesthetic choices are influenced and even modified by the frameworks of each social media platform.

I use screen printing to create textures on fabrics, then create doughnut-shaped soft sculptures for my  installations. Plaster casts of my hands and others’ tongues express the desire for food that we see but cannot eat. I also experiment with sculptural materials such as aluminum trays, tracing sheets, and thread to maximize the visual impact and express our desire for not only food, but all temptations in contemporary visual culture.

I also have prints in this project. My images in prints  incorporate hybrid images of human and animal figures. I am influenced by Korean myths and cultural stories, and by Buddhist philosophy where humans and animals closely interact each other. I have created humorous, distorted mixtures of hybrid animal-human creatures who personify aspects of human desire for and pleasure in food. The creatures are exaggerated, playing with luxury foods, such as popsicles or huge limes that serve as temptations to and tokens of pleasure. 

This project has two titles for two different exhibitions. One was "I am Dreaming of" at Brandstarter gallery, Riverside, California in 2022 and the other one was " Desire" at Bristelcone Gallery, Western Nevada College, Carson, City, Nevada. This exhibition was  Invited and honorarium by CCAI. Design, printing and distribution for the exhibition and marketing  expenses are also  paid by CCAI.