Emptiness beyond Emptiness series was my response to nature through a medium of photography when it spoke to me.
One day, I came to find dry stems of ivy after winter on the wall near my studio. If you strip each stem off the wall, you may find some residues left behind the empty wall such as traces of removed stems and chipped paints. When I did this, the remaining scene of the wall created visual illusions and I captured them through a camera. After returning my studio, I arranged collected ivy stems on a folding screen covered with a traditional Korean paper Hanji and dry flower petals were sprinkled on it, which composed the layout of the screen. Here at the second phase, the act of laying stems and petals were what derived from the act of stripping stems off at the first phase.
Then, I shot Polaroid 55 to produce an image of the screen. Before its developer on the surface dries off, I peeled apart the film from its backing paper and applied physical power on it to leave smudge marks like a drawing. At the end, the film was developed into prints of black and white pictures in an analogue style. Emptiness beyond Emptiness series created through the work process based on organic relationship is a visual translation of conversation process between nature and I. Traces of life and smudge marks of time arouse imagination and emergence of a new form. 

As the dimension of emptiness (空) is originally empty (空), it can be transformed into everything else.