Frailty
‘Love may not be a privilege of humanity; instead, it might be our greatest flaw frailty.’
The emotion we cherish as love may not be a privilege unique to humanity, but rather a testament to the frailty that defines our limitations. Perhaps, in a way, it is a final act of grace granted by a higher power to preserve our humanity. The sense of wholeness created when two curves touch feels complete, yet the true beauty lies in the fragile thrill of their near-perfect alignment.
Finger Kiss
2024
Oil on canvas, 60 x 100 cm
Compassion is not about embracing vast and grand elements of someone; rather, it involves cherishing the most delicate and vulnerable aspects of their being. Is compassion a diabolical ability that humans possess? While it has the power to save, it can also lead to greater suffering.
Fingertips are the thinnest and most sensitive parts of the body, where sharp pain is felt most intensely, even during torture. The act of kissing these fingertips transcends mere affection; it becomes a metaphor for a love that embraces delicate pain and sensitivity.
This gesture is a profound acceptance that does not shy away from sharpness and suffering but fully embraces them.
Cheek to Cheek
2023
Oil on canvas, 130 x 193 cm
The emotion of love we often focus on may not be a unique privilege of humanity but rather a reflection of our fragility, arising from the limits of our existence. When this love, which can feel like a weakness, is mirrored back to us, we seek validation—not through grandiose words or sweeping gestures, but through our subconscious need for closeness, expressed in simple touches: leaning, gripping tightly, hugging, and touching.
The face has no beginning or end; it exists as a perfect circle. When two such complete forms come into contact, the most immediate expressions of emotion emerge. This moment captures subtle changes in facial expressions, the direction of one’s gaze, and the memories formed in the instant of skin touching skin.
Two, 2023, oil on canvas, 193x130 cm
Defamiliarization, 2023, oil on canvas, 60x60 cm
I divid my childhood self into several elements: small patterns, round eyes, curly hair, the facial shape, and so on. I carefully examined each piece, one by one.
When I reassembled them, a familiar yet unfamiliar new form emerged. It was both my past self and a new version of me. Through the process of deconstruction and reconstruction, I realized that all the pieces that make up who I am are constantly evolving.
Waving Hands, 2023, oil on canvas, 60x60 cm
The two people waving their hands are looking at the same place. As their hands swing, they cut through the air, leaving traces that linger briefly before disappearing. These traces, though invisible to the eye, draw unseen lines in the space between them.
Curly hair piggy back
2023
oil on canvas, 145x112 cm
The hands that carried me diffused great strength. Those hands, larger than my face, bore a responsibility likely born from countless fears.
With those two hands, so much was given.
Don’t miss it
2023
Oil on canvas, 160 x 60 cm
The human body is ideally designed to become one. In this work, where lovers embrace, their shoulders meet to form a single shape, astonishingly symmetrical. Like pieces sculpted for each other since the beginning of time, the two fit together perfectly.
Peek-A-BOO
2023
Oil on canvas, 35x20cm
The hands that conceal hold greater meaning than the landscape laid in front of the eyes.
Eye Contact
2023
Oil on canvas, 116 x 80 cm
My parents’ eye contact represents the quietest yet the most profound conversations of my childhood. By abstracting that moment, I seek to visually reinterpret the emotional legacy I inherited from them.
Love_Nurtured
2024
Oil on canvas,116x91
Love is like nurturing individual plants. You need to put the right soil in each pot and provide the nutrients that suit it. Some plants require daily attention, while others thrive better with a bit of distance. Love is the process of finding that balance.