As a creator with a background in fashion design, I was once accustomed to precisely controlling the form and behaviour of materials. For a long time, my design thinking relied on precision and order, aiming to ensure that the final outcome aligned with my expectations. However, as my practice evolved, I began to gradually let go of that control and started handing agency back to the materials— their unique rhythms and characteristics. ‘Thinking through making’ became my new approach, and the tension, edges, and unpredictability of the materials began to lead me.
This series pays attention to ‘cracks’ to explore the shifting relationship between control and release, emotion and material. A crack here is not a form to be depicted, but a symbolic entry point—guiding me inward, into landscapes of memory, trauma, and repair. The varying textures, tensions, and instabilities between materials have gradually become catalysts for my imaginative response.
Through this process, I came to see materials not as passive carriers of meaning, but as co-creators with rhythm and agency. In their resistance, collapse, and spontaneous gestures, they echo emotional states and generate new language. Rather than dominating them, I now engage in a quiet dialogue, where intention and material vitality coexist and evolve.
I hope these works invite viewers to sense the materials, to hear the quiet murmurs beneath the surface—and perhaps, within the cracks, to recognize something soft, fragile, and continually healing in themselves.
Through this process, I came to see materials not as passive carriers of meaning, but as co-creators with rhythm and agency. In their resistance, collapse, and spontaneous gestures, they echo emotional states and generate new language. Rather than dominating them, I now engage in a quiet dialogue, where intention and material vitality coexist and evolve.
I hope these works invite viewers to sense the materials, to hear the quiet murmurs beneath the surface—and perhaps, within the cracks, to recognize something soft, fragile, and continually healing in themselves.