Domestic Disorientation

Domestic Disorientation addresses the condition that emerges after the logic of care and control, once embodied by the garden, migrates into the domestic interior. While the home appears to be the most private of spaces, it is also where social norms and expectations of life are most quietly repeated and internalized. This series focuses on moments when that alignment begins to fail.

Figures are absent. Instead, the compositions are formed by domestic objects, worn-out tools, displaced items, and potted plants. These objects function as traces of the body’s passage through space. Items that have lost their function but remain unremoved reveal a state of life that no longer conforms to expectations of productivity or proper use.

The garden reappears in miniature as potted plants within the home. Although living, these plants exist under entirely artificial conditions, dependent on constant care. Their conditional survival mirrors bodies that must continually adjust and recalibrate after migration. Care here does not lead to stability, but to ongoing regulation.

Color is deliberately excessive and vivid. While it echoes the images of bright, liberated lives circulated through media, within this space it becomes a surface that exposes fatigue and instability. Domestic Disorientation presents the home as a space that no longer offers orientation, where life no longer aligns naturally.

About What Could Not Be Kept
Watercolor, Ink on Korean paper, cut and pasted onto Korean paper on canvas, 2026
200 x 250 cm

Painting of an office chair with a black base and gray backrest, placed in front of a colorful, patterned wall with floral and geometric designs.

The Night Fades, the Day Awakens
Watercolor, Ink on Korean paper, cut and pasted onto Korean paper on canvas, 2025
110 x 80 cm

A painting of a potted plant with elongated leaves and closed flowers on a table. The background features a colorful pattern of green, yellow, and blue circles and lines. A crumpled tissue and a smartphone are on the table next to the plant.

Where Flowers Never Bloomed
Watercolor, Ink on Korean paper, cut and pasted onto Korean paper on canvas, 2025
90 x 70 cm

Painting of a cluttered living room with a fish tank, table, lamp, plant, water bottle, and a sock.

Staying Without Settling
Watercolor, Ink on Korean paper, cut and pasted onto Korean paper on canvas, 2025
110 x 180 cm

An abstract painting of a bunch of yellow bananas with brown outlines on a vibrant, textured blue and purple background.

That day was no different still
Watercolor on Korean paper, cut and pasted onto Korean paper on canvas, 2025
85 x 65.6 cm

Digital artwork depicting two stylized, abstract human faces, one in blue and one in yellow, with geometric and layered features, against a background of interconnected circles and lines.
A surreal digital art of a human face made from layered potato chips and fries against a purple and blue striped background.

The sentences were shattered and weightless
Watercolor on Korean paper, cut and pasted onto Korean paper on canvas, 2025
80 x 66 cm

Yellowed
Watercolor on Korean paper, cut and pasted onto Korean paper on canvas, 2025
30 x 30 cm

A colorful abstract painting of a human face with layered brushstrokes in shades of blue, purple, beige, and white, set against a background of horizontal bands in yellow, orange, red, and purple.

Blue
Watercolor on Korean paper, cut and pasted onto Korean paper on canvas, 2025
30 x 30 cm

Abstract artwork featuring a stylized face with orange and yellow hues, surrounded by ribbons or strips of orange and pink, on a purple background.

Red
Watercolor on Korean paper, cut and pasted onto Korean paper on canvas, 2025
30 x 30 cm