I am Metez (Yanghee Kim), an artist working within the realm of protruding painting, where surface is not merely a boundary but a space to be built, extended, and physically felt. Through abstraction and landscape, I explore a formative language that goes beyond the smooth visuality of digital images, seeking instead a tactile painterly experience grounded in material presence.

My works protrude outward like ridges, sediments, and terrain — layers of paint shaping topographies that invite the viewer not only to see, but to sense. Each mark is a gesture of accumulation, compression, and release, forming images that hover between painting and sculpture. Light travels across the uneven surface, shifting mood and meaning as one moves around the work, making time itself part of the viewing experience.

In this way, I pursue a visual field where landscape becomes emotion, abstraction becomes memory, and paint becomes a living form. My practice is an ongoing search for what exists beyond appearance — the depth, weight, and breath of painting itself.