My digital animation projects and installations are lyrically poetic first person stories based on my self and identity as an artist. The depiction of my daily life is drawn by charcoals and pencils combined with printmaking methods, then photographed.   I adopted the technique form of William Kentridge's charcoal animations into my personal daily life stories.   I combine hand drawn moving images with sound.   Hundreds of images are drawn, erased, and redrawn while each is rendered digitally.   Trying to locate my identity, I seek it in the different geographic and cultural milieus through which I have passed.   The cyclical journey is a central metaphor for not only the travels between my two home countries, Korea and the United States, but also of my daily life and its' rituals.

Drawings in my animations seem to be an allegory for dreaming, loneliness, and freedom. "I" am flying like a bird ( A Day (2002) ). "I" am drawing in a private secluded space as a shelter from all the noise and the desolation of the city.   These metaphors recur in A Rainy Day (2003).   The space drawn as a primitive shelter in A Rainy Day is my/her workspace and a space for solitude, fantasy, and happiness.   Inside the room, there is only the sound of circling footsteps, a dragging chair, a scribbling pen, and the drinking of coffee.   The sound of wind and rain only exists outside.   In time of silence and calmness, motion draws the beginning of drawing itself.   The space is primal (the beginning of drawing) and metaphorical (the mirror perception).   Endlessly pouring rain erases the world, and myself remains in the erased world.  Sprinkling the Cactus (2004) and My Home (2005-2007) are more dense and realistic than my previous films.   This cactus, green sprinkling water and green wind seem to be a source of consolation to counter the universally existent gravity and fatigue of daily routine life.   The main character in My Home , who is fed up with routine and weariness, tries to find a dream home, and moves to the "New City" to build her own shelter.    "Slow Down" (2004-2007) is less realistic, but focused on repeating motion such as running constantly, as an image of everyday life.
The recent on-going project, "Day Series 2007 1-4", is a looped animation.   Each short movie is created with imagery extracted from my ordinary life.    In a departure from other works in this series, which were drawn with graphite, "Day Series 2007-4" is made with approximately 80 prints using a drypoint technique on plexi glass, which makes more intense, and sharper images.

In contrast to the more linear narratives of the animated films, my installation projects take a cyclical form and are compressed down to a single repeating activity.   In Night Journey (2002) a shadow of a figure bicycling circles the walls of a dark room, lit from the center, and the sound of whistling echoes in the gallery.   For Inclining People (2004), I created a conveyor belt with hundreds of cut out digital- printed figures steadily moving up an inclining plane only to disappear over the horizon and return to the beginning, an endlessly repeating journey.