Prospective Biology major. I draw to look more carefully.
I grew up in Korea until the age of 14, then moved to New Zealand on my own at 15 to continue my studies. Since then I have been working through the New Zealand curriculum alongside the U.S. AP program in parallel.
I have drawn since I was young. The long hours of drawing built a habit of looking at things for a long time. That habit is what led me toward the life sciences.
The question I am interested in right now is what keeps something alive. I ask it in drawing, and I ask it in biology.
I started with a pencil sketch to define my grandfather and Saint Basil's Cathedral. Because this was his first trip abroad, I wanted his memory of Russia to feel vivid rather than faded. Instead of a single wash, I layered watercolor and colored pencil over and over to bring the scene back slowly. The bright blue sky was my own choice. The photograph was overcast.
Illustrating Tolstoy's story, I split the page into two temperatures—cold grey around the barefoot stranger outside the chapel, warm gold on the other side. I centered everything on the shoemaker's outstretched arm, the one thing that crosses between them. The Cyrillic title is lettered by hand.
I softened hardened air-dry clay by soaking it in water and reworked it with polymer clay, glitter thread, and hand-sculpted forms. Fifteen eggs, one shape, no two surfaces alike. At the center is a green-and-blue egg painted as the Earth. I built up the chicks' down with paint, colored pencil, and marker, layer over layer. The cardboard carton holds the whole thing in a grid.
A layered construction built from hand-drawn and hand-cut elements, handwritten notes, and sketches. I arranged cut-out text and imagery into an interconnected web to map out personal goals, inspirations, and daily reflections. The overlapping edges keep the layout fluid rather than rigid.
Selected work from middle school, made during my year at the Art Talent Education Institute (HEAD Lab), Hanyang University.
A collaborative project I planned with a collaborator abroad. We wanted to see how people who speak different languages answer the same questions.
We built the survey in three languages and distributed it. We collected around seventy responses.
We organized the responses and published them as a website.
I had expected the answers to differ by language. What actually differed was the way people phrased things — the underlying content overlapped more often than not.
A nine-month program at a university-affiliated institute for young artists. Beyond painting, I worked in printmaking and metal relief, learning to handle each material by hand.
Student reporter role covering reporting, writing, and editing to publication. Assigned to the Politics team, where I contributed to a group project on AI.