I am interested in the surface of things--textures, colors, images, and text. I find that surfaces can be taken and manipulated. In my work I find myself referencing textures, colors, images, and text from real objects or things in the world like food, candy, pop culture, or objects I encountered growing up in a Korean-American home. I find in a way that these surfaces are malleable and that their meaning constantly slips away and returns, sometimes changed: like repeating a word over and over, it somehow is made foreign or strange. This is the place I play. In making my work, I find myself in a space where meaning is constantly attaching and detaching, back and forth between something and nothing. I'm interested in taking those familiar nothings like a cliche or an everyday gum-wrapper throwaway nothing and using it and manipulating it to make that nothing somehow solid. I like to take these textures, these colors and our associations with them, and separate them from their original object and use them to create something that is like a child repeating a word over and over: familiar and strange, solid and fleeting.