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Symbolic Systems 2026 @krvstcl
This interactive poem takes the shape of a kimchi jar and symbolizes my separation and recent reunion and celebration of my Korean identity.
Link to Website
2023
3D Arduino installation, interactive poetry
The security blanket is a metaphor for something we cling to when we are afraid and how it is something we must learn to let it go.
2019
Photography
Sky River is a digital reinterpretation of Japanese graphic designer Koichi Sato’s style based on minimalist forms and gradients.
Blender 3D render
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
2022
Acrylic on canvas
An exploration of the intergenerational and varied manifestations of Japanese internment on the self, the body, the family, and language.
2018
acrylic and mixed media
A reflection of my Korean heritage in the new digital age, and how technology distorts my self-perception and my relationship with my culture.
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.
Photograph
A study on ephemeral hands, and an attempt to capture desperate grasping.
2014
Gesso on card.
This piece started as a blank page and turned into a take on modern ignorance rendered in colored pencil and typewriter ink. Link to Artwork
2020
colored pencil, poetry
This piece is an abstract self-portrait linking the internal self and the body to the collective human consciousness.
3D animation (Blender)
A depiction of the Southeast Alaskan landscape, seen from a kayak near the Inian Islands. 25.5″ x 36″
2017
Oil paint on paper
Serenity from within results from letting go.
Watercolor
Continuation of After Class Hours.
Digital Illustration
Sea Glass is a poem I wrote in high school about fearing going to college. I transformed it into a book with watercolor paintings and text designs.
Art book
These sculptures are abstract representations of my reflections on intimacy as being fluid, not rooted in rigid definitions.
Wood sculpture
With a color palette and thematic melancholy inspired by Picasso’s Blue Period, this intimate vignette chronicles my experience with depression.
Oil on wood panel
Impressions of animal magnetism and the collective unconscious.
Digital Visual Art
This work is based off a creative non-fiction short story I wrote about my childhood relationship with my father.
Oil on Canvas
This poem is dedicated to street children in Andhra Pradesh, India, who continue to face extraordinary barriers in education, health, and security. Link to Artwork
Creative Writing (Poetry)
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi around her as they mesh together following the fish’s flow.
Oil Paint on Canvas