Sculpture/ lacquer/ tile dust/ 160*70cm/ 2026
My works are rooted in my bodily experience of working with lacquer. For two years, I have explored how this ancient material transforms both artwork and its maker.
Unlanding emerged from this encounter:
Lacquer flows from a cut in the tree. That cut is both a wound and a portal: a passage through which the material leaves its original environment and enters another state.
While lacquering and polishing offered refuge, the material’s allergic effects reminded me of the body’s fragility and unease. Healing and pain coexisted within the same material.
I repeatedly imagined the impossible—that everything might return to its beginning and once again become nothing.
From this desire, a portal emerged. It’s not a real entrance, nor does it lead to a destination. Instead, it embodies the impulse to imagine a return to an unattainable elsewhere, even while knowing such return is impossible.
Unlanding exists within that impulse.