In my current paintings I explore architectural space and light to trigger loose memories from diverse cultures and social conventions. I strive to express the space of my everyday inner life, in which spiritual mythology, meditation and personal memories coexist. My goal is to connect such intimate experiences with public spaces and urban landscapes, allowing a wide range of viewers to project themselves into places where there is room for their souls.

The primary visual elements in my abstract pictures are based on architectural renderings. These landscape drawings are precise, simplified images and schematic, exactly proportioned plans. I add geographic imagery based on contour maps, patterns from fabrics and flags as well as an assortment of other decorative elements. In my previous career as interior designer, I used many new media by trial and error. Now I use these media self-consciously, creating virtual interior spaces that hover somewhere between two and three dimensions. I want viewers to feel as if they have become engulfed by my paintings, in spaces where they can move freely and are unencumbered by the laws of gravity and everyday obligations. I use glow-in-the-dark paint because I love the way stars sparkle on clear nights. This material allows my works to shine in the dark like the stars overhead, to occupy a space somewhere between the indoor and outdoor, as if inviting viewers into an imaginary botanical world.

I believe that art has one purpose: to help us live. Each day that I walk into the studio I realize this truth. Whether comforting or confrontational, the process and the work reaffirm the value of life. The abstract space of consciousness and the visible space of society are interconnected. The experience of a specific public space is projected into a consciousness and established in memory, where it produces multiplicitous identities. I come from a mono-cultural country, Korea, and I was thrown into a multi-cultural country, America. This is reflected in my work, which combines both Eastern and Western influences.

The bodily experience of space as lodged in the human memory becomes the foundation of consciousness and an individualÕs sensibilities. This physiological experience composes one of the most profound continuities of our lives. It is a portrait of contemporary people, each with an "opened window toward the world." The architectural landscape is a fundamental component of the life code.