Lingering Fragments I (Sticker I)

65.1x53 (15호) Acrylic on canvas, 2025-2026

The childhood memory of expanding one’s own world
by placing stickers across walls is summoned onto the canvas.
As time flows indifferently, the stickers tear, stain,
and lose their original luster; yet,
these worn traces paradoxically testify to the reality of the memories once so fervently cherished.
The materiality of the stickers, eroding with age, visualizes the passage of time,
while the fragments of innocence contained within become a 'lingering form'
that remains eternally in the heart.
This work is an existential record of grasping onto unchanging values amidst things that fade away.