I first worked as a picture book author and illustrator, and this naturally drew me toward exploring how images carry stories. That interest eventually led me to painting, where books became a familiar visual language and a source of personal emotion. The tall stacks of books and time-worn objects I encountered in a secondhand bookstore in Dongdaemun―each holding its own quiet history―became a key inspiration for my work.

In my paintings, books form the structural core, joined by worn objects and short-lived flowers to bring together different layers of time and emotion. I build and scrape acrylic paint to create surfaces that hold a sense of accumulated time, and I use flat compositions and multiple viewpoints to reinterpret memories and objects in a contemporary way.

Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, I aim to create open images that allow viewers to project their own experiences. Even as the visual world around us shifts rapidly, books remain a quiet emotional anchor in my practice.