My creative practice is a reclamation of the narratives systematically erased or distorted, particularly those surrounding my family’s history as Koreans in Japan. Growing up in the shadow of this intentional silence, I learned that history is often a battlefield of competing memories. My work serves as a conduit for these suppressed truths, grappling with the weight of colonial occupation and the scars of invasion. I believe in the necessity of confronting uncomfortable realities head-on, even when those truths are buried under the crushing weight of nationalism or political indifference.