Artist Statement

Through my work, I explore my response to fundamental questions about life, spirit, and the inner logic of things. In the process of creating images, I draw from the concepts of emptiness, void, and the numinous in both Eastern and Western philosophy. Through printmaking, I aim to express the unrepresentable and the inconceivable aspects often found in the imagery of quantum mechanics. I seek to experience this existence in an abstract way, rather than define it, stimulating the viewer's perception of the profound reality of the supernatural aspects of the void, while also exploring deeper philosophical propositions of emptiness.

The process of printmaking corresponds to a  a network of causes and conditions on which the existence of things depends. And both the creator and the creation‘s being are like the way the self and all phenomena come into existence termed paticca samutppada, or dependent origination. Through experimentation with emptiness and randomness in printmaking, the role of the ‘subject’ is constantly changing, and ultimately I understand that the forces that make matter and control our existence come from the interplay of those elusive, tiny beings that form us with the void of space, as Lucretius argued in the first century B.C. ‘if there were no emptiness, nothing could move.’ In my printmaking, I try to change the habitual mode of the senses as much as possible, and In a more ‘non-self’ state handed over the image more to that much bigger thing behind the ‘I’.