Q. Your photo-sculpture seems to have paved the way for the popularity of photo-collage in Korea. What made you pursue this new kind of work in the first place?
For me, it began in 1998 when I was still a university student, and made an exhibition debut in Seoul a year later. The traditional and organic materials used in my classes, for example tree branches and rocks, were too heavy to work with. I wanted to create lighter sculpture, both physically and metaphorically.