>> IT IS RELIEF SCULPTURES MADE OUT OF PAPER.

RELIEF SCULPTURE WE SEE ON COINS AND MAYBE LIKE STONES ON THE WALL, BUT PAPER SCULPTURES ARE A LITTLE DIFFERENT BECAUSE PAPER IS THIN SHEET.

UM, THEN YOU CUT IT INTO LAYERS AND PUT THEM TOGETHER BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE SO THIN, IT HAS LIKE A FLOATING EFFECT FROM THE WALL.

IT HAS A MORE DIMENSIONAL EFFECTS TO IT.

SO IT IS LIKE, IF YOU SEE A PAPER SCULPTURE, RELIEF SCULPTURE, YOU KIND OF HAVE A LITTLE ILLUSION MORE THREE- DIMENSIONAL.

>> BECAUSE WE LIVE AS A COMBINATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELEMENTS TOGETHER, SO THIS IS WHY YOU ARE SEEING, A PICTURE, BUT THEN THERE IS ALL DEPTHS TO IT, LAYERS TO IT, TEXTURES TO IT.

THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE.

I CAME HERE IN THE UNITED STATES AS A STUDENT.

AND WITH MY FAMILY, WE TRAVELED A LOT AND THEN BECAUSE I HAD A STUDENT VISA, I HAD TO ALWAYS BE STUDENT.

[ LAUGHTER ] >> YOU KNOW, I WOULD GO TO COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND, LIKE, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I WANTED TO BE AN ARTIST.

I MEAN, THAT IS WHAT I JUST DREW IN, SO I WAS, LIKE, TAKING ART CLASSES.

THOSE ARE MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE.

THAT IS HOW I STARTED, YOU KNOW?

DOING ART.

I MEAN, WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL IN KOREA, I DID LIKE SCULPTURES, CLAY SCULPTURES AND ALSO DRAWINGS.

BUT STILL, BACK THEN, I DID NOT WANT TO BE AN ARTIST, I JUST DID IT.

[ LAUGHTER ] YEAH.

THEN I CAME HERE AND WAS SETTING UP THE STUDIO AND I FOUND THOSE.

AND THEN, OH, IT HAS BEEN SO LONG.

I HAVEN'T DONE SKETCHES.

THAT IS WHERE CORE IS, LIKE.

LIKE I LOVE TO DO HUMAN FIGURES.

THE PAPER IS SO EXPRESSIVE MATERIAL, ESPECIALLY WHEN I DO THE HUMAN FIGURES, OH, THE MUSCLE TONES, AND LIKE I CAN DO THE VEINS AND HAIR AND, OH, IT IS SO FUN.

AND PAPER IS JUST, LIKE, PERFECT.

IT CAPTURES ALL OF THAT.

I LOVE IT.

>> I LIKE THE PROCESS OF CRAFT.

THE CRAFTSMANSHIP, LIKE TRADITIONAL.

LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE CRAFTSMANSHIP FROM, LIKE, CENTURIES AGO.

THEY HAD, LIKE, RULES AND PROCEDURES AND ALL THE STEPS AND THESE CERTAIN THINGS.

I WANTED TO KIND OF HAVE THAT.

NOT LIKE MUCH MOTION INVOLVED BUT WITH HANDS AND, I DON'T KNOW, KIND OF, SO IT'S LIKE I HAVE TO IMAGINE SOMETHING AND DECIDE TO MAKE SOMETHING AND MAKE A LOT OF SKETCHES.

AND THEN I SCANNED ALL OF THAT AND MAKE PATTERNS.

I SEPARATE THE LAYERS AND THEN CUT ALL THE PAPER AND THEN PUT THEM TOGETHER.

AND THEN I FRAME IT.

[ LAUGHTER ] >> YEAH, A LOT OF STEPS.

>> JUST, UM, I LOVE PAPER, THE MEDIUM.

I USUALLY THINK IT IS NOT MY WORK, ACTUALLY, IT IS WHAT PAPER CAN DO.

I JUST LOVE PAPER.

PAPER IS AWESOME.

>> IT IS THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING.

IT'S HOPE.

[ LAUGHTER ] >> THERE IS BIGGEST, LIKE, THE BEST ARCHITECTURE, THERE THE IDEAL.

SOMEBODY HAD THE IDEA PROBABLY DRAWN ON IT HERE FIRST, ON A NAPKIN OR WHATEVER BUT THE BEST NOVEL IDEA OR THE BEST MATHEMATICS FORMULA, WHATEVER, THE BIGGEST, THE BANK ROBBERY HEIST, WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, A PIECE OF NAPKIN IS THE BEGINNING OF SO MANY GREAT THINGS.

[ LAUGHTER ] >> IT'S LIKE, I WANT PEOPLE TO REALIZE WHATEVER, LIKE SOME COMMON THINGS LAYING AROUND YOU OR EVEN PEOPLE, WHATEVER.

IT HAS THE POTENTIAL OF, LIKE, WHAT IS IT, POSSIBILITIES.

THE SKY'S THE LIMIT.