I’m interested in portraying the human aspiration in life with organic forms from the new perspective I had about myself within a foreign country. Originally from Korea, I relocated to the United States and asked questions to myself in terms of my direction as an artist and an individual.

To address my interest in human aspiration, I like to integrate my personal philosophy and experience of subject incorporating my Korean heritage into the work in an effort to merge my eastern background and my western experiences how we, as humankind, are unified through the sensation of personal ambition.

In turn, my Korean heritage tends to make me ask about myself in terms of my direction especially after I came to the USA. What are my ambitions, how can I achieve these, and what is the personal significance?

My work specifically focuses on communicating the graceful flow of our emotional tendencies through the plastic medium of flame worked glass. I like to work sculpturally, utilizing form and its surrounding atmosphere to portray narratives based on the human encounter with success and failure in the pursuit of personal ambition.

The ladder and stair are objects of strong symbolic references to these thematic interests. As a tool used to aid in the elevation of oneself, the ladder and stair serve as a metaphor for ascension of extending one’s self above and beyond one’s own capabilities.

To make life size objects, I use a flameworking technique which allows me to think about what it means to aspire-where I’ve been and where I project to be in a meditative process of flameworking. Flameworking also give me a sense of achievement and a chance to think about the objective I had for the piece through the time period in which it took me to work.

From my work, I would like to give a chance for viewers to identify with my portrayal of the human need to progress to remembrance.