Original abstract painting created in 2022

Little Revolving Doors

Peace & Plenty

Piniata

Our lives are intertwined with categories in which we like to place things. Objects are defined by form, colour and scale, but most importantly by their function and our understanding of them. Through my ceramic sculpture I hope to show how breaking these conventions can bring a new order and understanding to objects and ourselves within the world. 

I am drawn to things that are multi-dimensional: they defy boundaries both physically and metaphorically. Life does not exist within a static state, so why should objects? This ever-shifting plane or mindset we live in is diminished in the way many works are displayed. I feel it is important to break this and situate artwork in the same fluid state it was created in. 

Ceramics have a unique relationship with objectivity because they are seen within the world in many categories, such as art, home, museum, sculptural, functional, decorative. The culture of ceramics is perfect for exploring objects that exist within the ‘in-between’. With the history of this medium and my unique ambiguous forms, I am able to address the ability of an object to be multi-dimensional and in a state of flux. I do this through merging opposing forms: Including geometric and organic, and playing with scale, and manipulation of context and colour to create works that are suggestive, acting as prompts. My hope is that the forms uniquely connect and resonate with each viewer, encouraging discussion and challenging their understanding of how they place, see and experience objects. 

Devils Advocate

I made this collage on March 21, 2022 to celebrate the coming of Spring. I picked flowers, cut a bit of blue sky, gathered cherry blossoms and painted a maiko, so they all fit together under sakura.

cutxpaint4

Graphite on paper, mounted to panel

In the “Clouds'' the texture of layers becomes the main point of aesthetic value. Created out of hand-painted textiles and then carefully assembled, these compositions of a light and lively color palette bring an uplifting feeling to the environment, evoking a positive emotional response.

Clouds II

Caught in a room the protagonist, Clarice, unfolds a vision of her own identity through a mirror interrogator.

SHE is a cinematic adaptation of a solo dance performance with the same name. The original performance work was created and performed by Dorotea Saykaly and premiered at 5éme Salle at Place des Arts in Montréal, Quebec in 2019.
Inspired by The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, the solo revolved around identity and doubt.
Manifested through movement, distortion and an interview with a phantom interrogator, the original work proposed looking at a questioning body through a female lens.

The cinematic adaptation of the original performance work arose during the first COVID lockdown in 2020 as a collaboration between Dorotea Saykaly and film director Emil Dam Seidel.

The different faces of grief

MAPPING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPACE- AND TIME-ACTIONS IN A FINITE ROTATING OBJECT 

GYRO (global)

creating links from new physical objects and visually connecting elements in the process of intuitively installing. taking a step back leads to the revelation moment of being finished, while keeping the tension of new elements that could have been.   one of the parts, the video shown on the green vector display of an oscilloscope provided by a sound file from an suspended iphone, is an excerpt from the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which deals with the dystopian construction of a metamorphosis of humankind to a being of one and unity of souls, depicted by meta scenes of the real world and as inner demons and outer angels.

almost finished already we together

Charlie Engman, Mom (Goldfish), 2016

SELFLESS

Reality is not at all easy. Why should painting be different?

l.o.p. yellow sm 3

Documentary project about Siberian kids in Tuva

Tuva, Siberia

Island, two channel video, teaser 1 minute 30 seconds, (full length14 min 15 sec), 2021 
https://vimeo.com/469392668/8c4763ca48
FILMOGRAPHY

Island is a silent piece that depicts the life in an Island. Using island as a place and a metaphor for life, I interpret my own life in a dance piece. Inspired by all the islands I have lived in my life- London, Manhattan, and Jeju Island, I use dance as means of communication and hope. Under the pandemic I felt the urge to create a piece that relates to the repeated daily life cycle but at the same time, Island as a cross concept of reality and fantasy/paradise.
Set between the islands in three different countries, I compose the story of my journey to rediscover who I really am. In this deep and affecting journey of self-discovery, touching on issues of loneliness, isolation, and the perseverance of the human spirit.

Island can be referred as a place of life and a journey, in which I have paradoxical feelings between relief and discomfort from being trapped between fantasy and reality in life. The dancer in this video looks for something constantly as if she will never find that tangible hope empowered by nature.
Aesthetics of colour in the film relates to attitude towards an island. Colour of the costume- black and white dresses, emphasizing emotional instability that follows emotional engagement of the characters. Postures and movement with the sword depicts the character’s phycological state caused by the repressed and unconscious inner conflict ,in a living in an island.

Through this film, I add my own voice to the dance and to all the people who are afraid to forget who they are, and where they come from while reflecting on what they may have lost along the way.


Sum (Island)

Mirror

**_Love Letters_**

  
Acrylic, Graphite, and Conte Paintings on vintage book and paper.

  
Collection of love letters written by historical figures and famous lovers throughout the ages. The phrases of the hand-written pieces correspond to loving, passionate, sometimes humorous excerpts from each letter, the text partially obscured by paint ground.

  
In these pieces, I appropriate a pre-existing text, here letters, and obscure the original document which serves to act as a mirror for the ideas, needs, and desires of the viewer. The idea of covering is twofold: First, simply, that these are private letters. Intimate thoughts and words, often delivered in secret, hidden, intended only for two people, and their eyes alone. Secondly, the hidden words act as a metaphor for the subconscious – an awareness and the thoughts that exist just under the surface, almost out of reach, barely perceptible. The unspoken that I believe exists in us all. As the words are concealed and the paint eventually dries, small, seemingly trivial details – random words and phrases emerge, as if bubbling from the subconscious, while the larger picture and context are erased.

  
The pieces are always painted and presented in a set of two, representing the duality of nature and suggesting that there are two sides to every story. Certainly, this work is about human emotion — the spectrum from love to hate, or indifference rather, and all the messiness in-between. While these pieces may seem simple in execution, the concept runs deeper. I take much time pondering, searching for just the correct phrase to write on the finished piece. It must resonate with me. If not initially, then after I obliterate the text. The words often find me. The paint, which resembles Rorschach inkblots, forms a ground from which I tease out words. I purposely scribble, giving the work a dashed-off quality, another metaphor for emotion. For me, anything "too perfect," too calligraphic would just be robotic and negate the feeling. Beauty in imperfection. The pieces become a palimpsest of sorts, subverting and transforming language, creating a new form.

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