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spirit illness: slump

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spirit illness: slump (2020) | 90cm x 120cm | acrylic, hand-dyed cotton threads on raw canvas
Slump is when movement is stagnant and everything feels impossible. I laid for 6 months as if a ball and chain were clasped around my neck. I couldn’t get up. All senses and my sense of self were being overridden. Feeling hollow and disconnected from my spirit, I lose trust in myself as the grief from the dark red aloe flower pierces through my body. Meanwhile, a white snake coils like innards, symbolising the ancestor spirits that have made a home inside me.
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spirit illness series

The Spirit Illness series explores my long-suffering of a spiritual and metaphysical experience. For most of my life, I endured a series of unexplained symptoms such as undiagnosable depression, extreme fatigue, alcoholism, dreaming and seeing of spirits, and precognitions. Finally, I was diagnosed with a culturally-specific spirit illness, known in Korea as ‘Sinbyoeng’ (신병). The Spirit Illness series began in 2019, and fortunately, the symptoms were diagnosed and treated successfully through a shamanic ritual in July 2020.

​The series mostly includes self-portraits with snakes and animal symbolism. It is a growing body of work, as there are many more stories yet to be told.
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spirit illness: the hunt (2020) | 120cm x 90cm | acrylic, hand-dyed cotton thread on linen.
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spirit illness: beer (2020) | 120cm x 90cm | acrylic, hand dyed cotton threads on raw canvas.
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    • Woman in the Bath III
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    • Talisman Series (2023) >
      • Talisman #1
      • Talisman #2
      • Against the Current
    • Spirit Illness series (2020-21) >
      • Sleeping Bull
      • The Hunt
      • slump [SOLD]
      • beer
      • on a bed of thistles
    • Other >
      • Birth Dream (2023)
      • “You are still a magpie even if you don’t swoop with the others” (2020)
      • Bouquet (2019)
      • crane picnic
      • Black Iris
      • a dreaming rooster
      • the daydreamer
      • the island
  • About / Contact
    • Artistic Approach
    • Biography
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  • SUBSCRIBE ✉️