Artwork title : Camp #16 in North Korea

The theme of my art has been to create works that honor the deceased who died under North Korea’s brutal dictatorship, to memorialize those who have been cast away into cold pits and forgotten without even gravestones to mark their passing.  This work of art is made to commemorate the countless souls who were killed in the terrible political prison camps, which are said to be near impossible to come out of alive.

My art deals with political issues, but I have simplified my forms and colors as much as possible in an effort to show my emotions immensely and minimally. Of course, there is also the intent to inform North Korea of the repression of human rights through this piece.

My art is done in a ritualistic manner meant to speak healing to the wounded spirits, praying for eradication of the roots of their sorrow. I know there is no way I could possibly understand their hardship. But even so, with their cries of anguish ringing in my heart, I just burn and burn, because I can imagine no other method that could do justice to the depth of their suffering.