Encounters
	My containers in the form of a box evoke nostalgia about places and people, using fragmented photographic snapshots put together side by side. In this series, Encounters, the displaced reality in my work exists as a composite of my experience and the memory of ‘home,’ using reverse perspective from the 19th century Korean Folk Painting to show my (the image owner’s) own view point as opposed to the Renaissance linear perspective commonly accepted. As I live and often travel away from my home country, the boundary between original ‘home’ and where I consider ‘home’ is often blurred. I capture these moments of coincidence in my journey in the shape of a box wrapped with a geographical mark- map of the place. My work is like traveler’s souvenirs that remind of scattered memories from the past. My approach with night landscape in Encounters installation is originated from my childhood memory of constellations and insect sounds near my grandmother’s place. As a child born and raised in a large city, looking up giant stars in the night sky in a rural surrounding was a quite amazing experience. I remind the dazzling moment of totally forgetting myself whenever I encounter the similar situations. Sky used in the video projection connotes dual meanings: sky as a space evoking my memory from the past and the one as my body’s transformation. Before this installation, I found the points and connecting lines resembled a constellation while visually tracing my travels in the U. S. map. About the same time, I also found the skin of my body resembled the sky with its speckles and texture when the colors were inverted. By combining these two ideas, I created my body’s traces in the map becoming a constellation in the sky, and the sky becoming my body.