Starting from a single event, things branch out like the limbs of a tree, and the world that I perceive is constructed. Because I can only grasp the reality of the world through myself, it was necessary for me to spend time engaging with the poetry of the work I create.

The "poetry" mentioned here includes the function and mentality of my interpretation of the world, which is inherently provocative. On the other hand, "objectivity" refers to the presence of an independent motif in the work itself, free from subjectivity.

The reason I continue wandering through the labyrinth of photography is that this work is deeply connected to my own existence, and I feel that I must persistently question this issue in good faith.

As a starting point for this inquiry, I came to recognize once again the concept of "internal and external" present in all things, which led to the creation of this work. I turned my attention to the sudden appearances within my own life and the ways in which my perspective on the daily world and the world itself changed as a result. This began with the spatial understanding of "home and outside" formed during the period of self-imposed lockdown due to the pandemic.

The geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, in his book Space and Place, states that "space is like a blank page, holding the potential to be inscribed with meaning." He explains that space becomes "place" when it is given meaning by humans. He also suggests that human life is a dialectical movement between dependence and freedom, protection and adventure, and that the necessity of moving between the home, the foundation of life, and the external world, to which we long, is intrinsic to this dynamic.

As a photographer, I had previously gone out to specific places to photograph, constructing relationships with the locations and motifs through the photographs. The essence of my previous series was rooted in the traces left by people, the energy and consciousness embedded in them, communication through time, and the worldview they encompassed.

While the outside world was, for me, a place of unknown adventure, the inside of my home served as a place to bring back the outside world as film, confirm the relationships I had created, and function as the space where I would create my work.

However, it is now difficult to feel merely longing or freedom in the external world. After the pandemic, we have been forced to recognize that the shadow of death is embedded within it. The "outside," which had once been an object of longing, now carries a sense of anxiety and fear, making the internal space of home more meaningful.

They are things brought from the external by others, yet they fuse into the internal space and transform into elements that compose the landscape of my life.

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