Reciprocate
Oil on canvas, 2025
Reciprocate explores a psychological state shaped by surveillance, pressure, and emotional imbalance.
The eye within the composition symbolizes an ongoing presence of observation and control, while the distorted structures and black forms suggest forces that gradually penetrate the inner emotional space. Boundaries begin to dissolve as consciousness, emotion, and external pressure become entangled.
The vivid pink line introduces an opposing energy — tenderness, emotional vitality, and the remaining instinct to protect the self. Moving across the painting like both a wound and a boundary, it attempts to interrupt and resist the invasive gaze.
Standing before the canvas, the relationship of looking begins to reverse.
The viewer is no longer only observing, but also becomes the one being looked back at.
Unfaded
Oil on canvas, 2025
Unfaded reflects a state in which traces of tenderness continue to exist despite constant transformation and conflict.
The figures and symbols within the composition intertwine like multiple versions of the self existing simultaneously — rational, passionate, vulnerable, stubborn, and longing to be understood. What begins as a gentle form of recognition gradually becomes entangled with structures of power, control, and reality. Black marks spread across the surface as signs of resistance, struggle, and repetition.
Yet even as everything shifts, the original tenderness never fully disappears.
“Unfaded” does not suggest purity or permanence, but rather the persistence of emotional traces through cycles of desire, power, injury, and fate. The colors, gestures, and fragmented forms all remain as evidence of what once existed.
Gold represents systems of interest and material reality, while the black forms evoke intrusion and oppression. At the same time, the continuing presence of pinks, purples, and flowing colors preserves a softness that has not been completely consumed.
The work ultimately speaks to a complex human condition:
people change continuously, but certain emotions, memories, and forms of love never entirely fade.
Before It Fades
The Beautifully Doomed
Oil on canvas, 2025
This work was inspired by a dream.
In the dream, a middle-aged man stood quietly within an underground passageway. Calm, charismatic, and carrying a restrained sense of exhaustion, he softly reminded me: youth fades.
The fireworks exploding throughout the background resemble the brilliance of life itself — radiant, intense, and fleeting. A staircase cuts through the composition, leading toward a door at its end. Beyond the door, a young boy pins a nonexistent girl against the wall, as if whispering to her: before it fades.
The red within the painting symbolizes passion, desire, and emotional wounds. Black lines fracture the space, placing the entire world into a state of chaos and instability. Love, loneliness, youth, anxiety, and desire become entangled, erupting violently from within the disorder.
If everything is destined to fade,
then before it faded,
let those brief, raw, and passionate moments burn brilliantly like fireworks.
Breaking the Gaze — Emergence from the Storm
Oil on canvas, 2025
This work portrays a state of life existing at the center of a storm.
The black and red flags symbolize interpersonal conflict, power struggles, and tensions between opposing ideologies. Within these forces, human existence resembles a small boat drifting through a violent storm, constantly swaying between instability, danger, and loss of control.
Meteor showers, violent winds, and fractured structures together create a world on the verge of collapse. The blue evokes both the deep sea and the night sky — vast, uncertain, and unknown — while the black forms resemble oppressive forces pressing continuously upon reality.
Yet amid chaos and decline, green forms of life continue to grow upward. They appear both as plants and as symbols of a spiritual force that cannot be fully destroyed — persistently breaking through, spreading, and emerging within the storm itself.
Breaking the Gaze is not only about conflict,
but about the process of growing again through oppression, surveillance, and disorder.
Even within a world filled with division and turbulence,
life continues searching for its own direction.
Passing / Becoming / Not Knowing
Oil on canvas, 2024
This work begins with the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The bridge appears not only as a physical structure, but also as a passage between different worlds — connecting reality and dream, the known and the unknown, existence and disappearance.
The colors within the painting do not follow the logic of the actual landscape, but instead form a psychological space. The vivid red bridge stretches across the bay and mountains like a trajectory floating through consciousness. As a result, the surrounding landscape becomes dreamlike and unstable, as though the world itself is slowly shifting between reality and illusion.
Mist and water continuously expand throughout the composition. The fog of the Golden Gate originates from global ocean currents, traveling across vast distances before gathering within the Bay Area, like the breath of a larger planetary system — a movement of both existence and dissolution.
Passing / Becoming / Not Knowing does not attempt to provide clear answers,
but instead reflects a state of continual transformation.
Human beings are constantly passing through, becoming, and confronting the unknown.
Perhaps life itself exists within this flow that can never be fully defined or contained.
Solar vs Lunar
Oil on canvas, 2025
This work portrays two opposing forms of energy.
The golden lion symbolizes a solar force — light, order, truth, and visible systems of rules. It carries a direct and stable energy, like a presence capable of illuminating the world itself.
The gray-blue wolf represents another, more shadowed force: concealment, manipulation, conspiracy, and subconscious control. Rather than confronting directly, it moves through the hidden spaces of the psyche, operating from within the shadows.
Within the painting, the lion ultimately defeats the wolf.
After its defeat, the wolf wears a flattering, submissive smile, as if trying to escape as quickly as possible, while the lion reveals an almost childlike expression of satisfaction and innocent joy.
The entire background is surrounded by darkness, suggesting a world where unseen shadows always exist beneath the surface.
Yet when solar energy is brought fully into the light, those hidden manipulations and subconscious schemes are eventually exposed, illuminated, and gradually lose their power.
The Whale’s Vigil
Oil on canvas, 2025
The Whale’s Vigil reflects an ongoing dialogue between two forms of spiritual energy.
The blue and pink elements symbolize opposing yet interdependent states of consciousness: awareness and the subconscious, logic and emotion, the ego and the higher self, the left brain and the right brain. Rather than existing in conflict, these energies appear to play, communicate, and resonate with one another within the darkness.
The black space resembles both the deep ocean and the unknown inner structure of the psyche. The storms, chaos, and emotional traces once experienced have not completely disappeared, but instead gradually transform into a field where these energies can move, interact, and play freely.
After moving through chaos,
the spirit begins to learn how to continue dancing, playing, and glowing within the dark.