Canary 
2025

                                                                              


_{These two works are part of a recent visual experiment inspired by *The Vegetarian* by the Korean writer Han Kang.I am exploring a form of passive transformation that a person may undergo in moments of pain. Those who first sense harm—and remain quietest—often turn toward a softer, almost vegetal mode of existence when pressed into a space where speech and escape are impossible.This metamorphosis becomes a re-imagining of one’s own way of being. It is an instinctive rebellion against suffering: as if only by shedding one’s original form can a brief distancing from pain occur. Such transformation is a choice of self-preservation made in a state of speechlessness.In the images, plants and the female body seep into one another, as if two forms of life are searching for new ways to attach, remember, and endure. Yet even as transformation takes place, the figure remains trapped within the outline of a cage. The birdcage-shaped wooden frame suggests a more ambivalent possibility: that escape never truly happens, and pain merely withdraws into deeper layers, continuing in quieter, more concealed ways. Sensitivity becomes both the awareness of confinement and the gaze that lingers on its helplessness and suffocation.}