Laguna College of Art + Design

Our ethics, logic, and aesthetics are highly dependent on the environment to which

we belong. In one community such as a country, family, ethnicity, or generation, people may

hold beliefs that feel like “common sense” to the people who belong, but those same beliefs

often seem odd to people from another community. I want people to become aware of the

“common sense” that subconsciously controls them. Our beliefs and feelings are so

embedded in our lives that people are not even aware of their oddness. Through my

conceptional oil paintings, I try to reveal that people’s destiny is controlled by these socially

imposed values without question. I want those who suffer from their fate, which is not their

choice, to have the power to overcome their born environment on their own. I hope they can

believe in themselves, even if their beliefs and value systems differ from those in their inner

circle.