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Student Artist
Materials Science and Engineering, PhD 2023 @simba.de
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
2023
Oil on wood panel
I play hide and seek with the scars from a clumsy childhood that my Korean family always told me to hide.
2021
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Taken at Felt Lake during one of the field trips of MI 70Q: Photographing Nature, featuring a IntroSem student of the course.
2019
Photograph
This image plays with scale, texture, and the physicality of water.
2016
Color Film
I wanted to depict the endless possibilities of this world; the one we are so used to taking for granted.
2018
Acrylic on canvas
“Ritual” is an unfinished game prototype that is one piece of a meta-narrative that unfolds as the viewer explores the file directory containing it.
Link to Website
2020
Interactive narrative horror game/file explorer experience
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
Based on the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley, this piece was intended to examine the environmental and cultural cost of the fashion industry.
2015
Mixed Media
Two paintings exploring emptiness and isolation, and confronting feelings of lack of control during the early stages of the pandemic.
Acrylic on canvas, some collage from a news story
A Joshua Tree, with its grotesque appearance, instantly demands attention.
Photograph of Landscape
Inspired by a trip to explore the nature preserves in Mass Landing, CA, this art showcases two curlew birds looking for food in the shallow waters.
2017
Watercolor and Pencil
This piece explores repetition, but also sense of self (or selves). The title is a quote from Michael Pollan’s “Botany of Desire.”
Vector drawing and photography
A study of a tree for Drawing I in charcoal, exploring silhouettes and shading.
Charcoal on Paper
A cat in a Japanese restaurant.
3D computer graphics
Knowledge allows the mind to bloom.
2022
Digital Illustration
Self portrait at the height of COVID and my own extraordinary depression.
Oil paint on canvas
This piece captures the fleeting, but golden moment of connection between the deer and the viewer. A reminder that beautiful things are fleeting.
Oil on canvas
An abstract perspective of a cityscape.
Water Color on Paper
Our hands – bridges, sinewy tendons & arteries – among the last parts dissected because of their distinctly human character.
Photography; De-identified photo taken for artistic purposes with permission from anatomy professors.
This is the first of an ongoing watercolor series completed under shelter-in-place, based on photos that friends have sent of their favorite views.
Watercolor