Selected artworks from ongoing project 'the bird people'

At the heart of this project lies a deep personal grief, which the artist seeks to resolve by confronting themes of separation and identity loss. By learning to to weave together Korean and Ethiopian traditional motifs, soils, and landscapes - creating a third option, where these distant geographies meet.

Through this exploration, she examines how her own journey is part of larger narratives of repatriation and migration, which are not always voluntary or possible.

Her works speak through memory, folklore, and the process of generational repair. She uses organic materials like clay, charcoal, and sand, giving terrestrial form to the ephemeral nature of remembrance. The sepia tones in her paintings are reminiscent of old photos and the images are formed in the absence of color - in many ways this is a practise of restraint, learning what to let go and preserve. These pieces act as evolving archives, open to reinterpretation and recontextualization.