Avocado

I began photography at 68.

Before the camera, I spent four decades in molecular genetics — studying how invisible codes shape living things. Now I explore a different kind of inheritance: the emotions passed between generations that are felt but never named.

My work centers on a single theme — [love unremembered]. It began with a personal recognition: raising a grandchild and realizing, only then, the depth of my own grandmother's love. That invisible, intergenerational flow of care became the foundation of everything I create.

I work across photography and AI-generated imagery. Through Midjourney and Flux, I construct what I call composite memories — images that never existed as photographs, yet carry the emotional weight of something once lived. These are not records of the past but synthetic reconstructions of feeling, built from fragments of experience that resist conventional documentation. The spaces I build — water, stone, light held in architecture without inhabitants — are vessels for the kind of memory that has no image of its own.

I also teach. Through AI Art Academy, I lead structured courses for photographers entering the world of AI image generation, helping them develop artistic judgment alongside technical skill.

Based in Seoul