The Distant Now
Old Friends Gallery
Chicago, IL, 2025
Solo Exhibition:
As the descendant of Korean, Polish, Irish, and other European ancestors, some that emigrated and some of whom did not, I have callings to many places and many, albeit similar, natural environments. Rationalizing some of those relationships can be helpful in formulating the new connections we seek to build with place, but generally, I also feel that there is an intuitive element to our relationship with land that is easily overlooked in the westernized, individualistic society we live in today. I like to really examine the benefits of fantasy, fiction and dream building for communal and ancestral purposes, to find our way back to our collective selves.
In these works, I'm sitting with the idea of an unearthed and unclear relationship to landscapes that lie buried in our biological past as well as the systems that worked alongside them to order, organize and understand that relationship. I also celebrate how fantasy can open those connections and pull us towards more healing relationships with nature than the ones we're dealing with now.
The collection below features work in my solo show at Old Friends gallery in Chicago, IL in 2025
