Grief 2024
Linen tread, olive wood,museum board
Photo by Mariah Moneda
Like oil, water,and other natural resources, language is a product of cultures and power. Inherently tied to power and scarcity, languages are not always sufficient or effective for communication. Grief is an interdisciplinary artwork that expresses the unspeakable nature of the complex human response to the significant loss following the global pandemic — a response that is acute, lingering, and indelible. By integrating digital fabrication techniques such as laser engraving and experimenting with the materiality of paper and wood, the traumatic and irreparable loss in the post-COVID era is expressed through a tangible experience.
Forest, Ocean,
Drift in the Cloud
2025
Cherry Wood
Photo by Nika McKagen
Forest, Ocean, Drift in the Cloud is an experimental, improvisational, and cross-disciplinary work spanning art and design . Unlike Modernism design practices that emphasize functionality, this piece centers on the performance of the artist or designer during the act of making. It foregrounds an ongoing dialogue between the creator, the medium, and the form—a process of constant interaction and integration.
Feeling and resisting the forces of electronic tools—something both powerful and commanding—while gently touching the fragility of wood, the work unfolds as an exploration of social isolation within the context of diaspora through the human body. This interplay becomes a physical metaphor for existence itself, reflecting the vulnerability and instability of diasporic life—the uncertainty of being, imagining, and belonging.
You Were Gone
2025
The intention behind this work is not to design a beautiful or functional chair, but to reflect on the deeper significance of the chair within the domestic space. Furnitures are containers that hold memories of the past, the present, and the imagination of an idealized future. The impression of a domestic space reflects the inner space.
From concept to realization, this piece reflects emotional design over functionality. Rather than focusing on ergonomic support, it highlights the precarious and unstable living conditions faced by displaced populations in the context of global immigration. The chair becomes a metaphor—not just a place to rest, but a symbol of home, identity, and belonging. Through this object, the project seeks to evoke the tension between rootedness and displacement, permanence, and transience.
Home 2023
Laser engraved on paper
When Time To Die
Flout Life
2023
Through exploring how trans-generational trauma casts lasting shadows over individual families, this book presents two printed works. The first, a perfect-bound book, functions as a dictionary that recalls objects from earlier generations in China. Each item carries a general meaning, while also holding special significance for specific families. The second, an accordion-style brochure, narrates critical events experienced by earlier generations.
Out of Control
2023
The phrase "out of control" encapsulates a state of uncontrollability. While food and stuffed toys typically evoke happiness, I utilized them to underscore the detrimental effects of losing control. Through extreme deformation and distortion showcased in the two videos, I emphasized the destructive nature of loss.
3D TYPE COOKBOOK This book explores the possibilities of transforming type into 3D forms through CAD software, from design to fabrication. The types designed here do not have practical functions but aim to explore expressions of type beyond the two-dimensional plane and existing forms in a joyful experimental method.
Research and works were collected in Professor Taekyeom Lee’s Advanced Typography.
You Don’t Have to Say Anything
2023
Creature Design
An imagined creatured designed rethink that language is insufficient to communicate because of the differences between cultures and individual experiences.
Sacrifice
2023
Sacrifice is a set of chess pieces that reflects on the current Russia-Ukraine war and questions who the real beneficiaries behind it are.
Daur Project
2022
Daur People are a Mongolic ethnic group who have historically resided in the northeast of China. Today, with a population of only thirteen thousand, knowledge of Daur culture and arts is rare. Very few descendants of the Daur still speak their language. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has classified the Daur language as endangered in the Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. Due to long-term political and economic marginalization, the indigenous written language of the Daur People no longer exists.
This project delved into the origins of the Duar written language, tracing it back to the Khitan Language, and explored the traditional Daur ornamentation, aiming to study and recreate these elements to depict Daur costom visually.
Symbiosis - 01
2022
Symbiosis is a experimental project exploring child-parent relationship.
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