My Round World I

In My Round World I, I wanted to hold the entire earth in a single, circular frame. The tondo format is very special to me—it removes the corners and the edges that usually dictate where a landscape begins and ends, making the viewer feel as if they are looking through a portal at something much larger than themselves.

I chose the metal board as a cold, unyielding foundation to contrast with the living, changing nature of the structure paste. As I worked the surface, I was thinking about the transition from the void to the solid. I left the top portion smooth and silent, like an untouched sky, while the bottom becomes a chaotic, fractured record of movement. Those deep, dark cracks are where I feel the life of the piece resides; they are the scars of time. For me, this work is about the delicate balance of our existence—it is a fragment of a world that is at once solid and enduring, yet visibly cracking and fragile. It is an invitation to look at our environment not as something we stand on, but as a living body that breathes, breaks, and slowly evolves