My work begins with anxiety. This comes from mixed various emotions, that anyone may feel in a modern society, such as a momentary feeling of threat to survival and living, trauma and lost sensation, etc. Most of all, when my trauma in childhood overlaps with reality, my emotions is maximized and as I become in a state of anxiety, I sink into my inner world and become to start working.

 

The trauma is a fear of nature that made me feel threatened of my life when I lost in great nature and left alone in my childhood. Nature was perceived for me as a threat and a place creating an anxiety and threatening survival. I was able to endure that moment thinking about artificial spaces such as earnestly desired my family and memories of my sweet home. Since then, I've been obsessed with a stable space and always marked my things or spaces in red. I used to gain stability through actions like drawing lines to mark my own spaces and territories or putting my own marking on things in red.

 

Stand on the basis of these memories, I created natural and artificial spaces in my works and through red color, I divided spaces that I feel stable. At this time, I used to express the way of division by drawing lines or by coloring spaces inside the lines red.

 

Red means mainly boundaries and possession. The red lines, which appeared in the works of [Lineation], [Intended landscape] series, were used as a way of building my boundaries and aiming stability in them whereas the reds, which appeared in the works of [Red Territory] series, were used to express in possession of my territory stronger and more aggressively by reddening the space itself. Red is the color that makes me feel a complete mine, I am the owner of myself. It may be a kind of obsession, but it let me overcome and endure my anxiety or fear from outside owing to the environment I own and can control.

 

I record society, life, environment and emotions that I feel through my works. Through my works, I present a mundane but contradictory scenery, used to create spaces that I want to belong to and, sometimes, expresses my inner emotions as it is.