I have addressed creative discourses on issues of blurred boundaries not just in the geographical sense, but also in the virtual and physical sense. My creative works explore the blurred boundaries of today's nomadic life style. Today's nomadism is not that of unrestricted wandering; it is based on a global nomadic culture. Out nomadic lifestyle redefines the meaning of 'home' as something that one may carry only in one's mind or in one's own character. In addition, our experiences are now multi-cultural, transcending geographic locations and the ethnic characteristics of our living environments.

As a culturally displaced artist, I have been drawn to the theme of cultural displacement and identity, and to social psychological and cross-cultural studies that are heavily influenced by immigrant experiences and by the interaction between people and space. My most recent projects have adopted a documentary approach and artistic archives to present my experiences of dislocation and rootlessness in our contemporary nomadic culture.

Drinking Your Surroundings (2004~ongoing) and Traveler's Cup (2012~ongoing) comprise over hundred digital pigment prints that represent the places I have lived in and visited. These works embody my desire to come to terms with my origins and to create and artistic archive of my cultural displacement and the attendant sense of instability and sense of alienation. I have been collecting images of my different surroundings and arranging them, per place, within the water glass that I drink from every day, in order to absorb that place visually and conceptually. These 'portraits' of place convey my thoughts and feelings about the places where I have not constructed an identity and therefore am unable to retrieve spatial memories and stories.
 - Joo Yeon Woo