Deficiency

For a long time, my world was constructed of precise words. As a professional lyricist, I spent years capturing fleeting emotions and refining them into rhythmic sentences. However, throughout my diverse career paths, I began to encounter a persistent silence that words could not fill. In my early paintings, I attempted to bridge this gap by pouring text onto the canvas. I filled the frames with the “discarded sentences”. But I soon realized that this overflow of words was merely evidence of a deficiency; it was an attempt to explain what only needed to be felt. I decided to stop explaining. I chose Visual Silence. Now, I look toward the forest. My current project, Moving East Again, is a meditation on the forest’s cycle of death and rebirth. To me, the forest is not just a landscape; it is a space of Staying, where the accumulation of time and the density of life create a sanctuary of recovery. By removing explicit text, I invite the viewer to face their own internal answers that have been buried under social noise. My paintings are no longer about defining a feeling, but about creating a space where we can simply ‘stay’ and witness our own resilience.