About
Ji Made with Ji
Statement
I believe life is already a dream, if we slow down long enough to see it.
Practice
I picked up a camera fifteen years ago after seeing Steve McCurry’s portraits of India, and I’ve been chasing the same thing ever since: the love, humanity, and quiet memory hiding inside ordinary scenes.
That search has taken me around the world with rolls of film. It also led me to the potter’s wheel, to my father’s brush table, and now to the workshops of people who have given their lives to a single craft.
What I want from all of it is work that stands on its own, holds its feeling, and proves we were here.
Four materials
- LightWhat I notice. Photographs, made one roll at a time.19 rolls
- ClayWhat I make by hand. Pottery, thrown on the wheel.In preparation
- InkWhat I inherit. Calligraphy by my father, Hyunbo, which I photograph and catalogue.48 works
- RoadWhere I go to learn. Journeys, a film series made with craftspeople around the world.In preparation