My work has been derived from drawings and collages. On one particular day, all art materials, including my light pencil, felt extremely heavy—I found the regularities and laws of life to be bothersome. I began to think about and question the results of disrupting well-aligned images and laws. On the one hand, I had innate rebelliousness against superficial order. On the other hand, I had a desire to chase personal and routine inspirations. To clear my mind, I jotted down some notes and doodled in my notebook to capture images flashing from the television. Such simple stimulus made me feel stable and relieved the burden I felt. Lines, as expressions, became rougher as embracing images became more difficult. Forms became distorted and disconnected, however, at the same time, simplified. Various stimuli became a collection of straight lines, squiggly lines, quickly-drawn lines, and various dots. Forms created by such response were cut out and pasted on other paper to form a collage to further dissolve the established laws. Such simple drawings were parts of light images and were like props; however, as a collage, the combinations of simple drawings were able to demonstrate wholeness and the potential to include every detail. Through this process, remains of the details of the objects disappeared and chronological order was broken, and this seemed like a definite possibility to extract some sort of inherent principle.
 
Although I intentionally mixed fragmented visual experiences in a chaotic manner, this disruptive process soon created a new order of arrangement. I define images as an arrangement or an array of visual units selected by a predefined mechanism. Video clips are created by frames, printed photographs are created by pixels, and images displayed on computer screens are created by flashing lights. In the same fashion, the lines and dots that I expressed in my work are also units, and these units are created by disrupting rules that formulate images perceived by the human eye. Nonetheless, the units that I created merged together to engender new forms, just as if they were seeking order. From these new forms, I again carried out a disruptive process and created new order, and repeated the process over and over. Despite this effort, my work did not become empty. Rather, after the repetitive processes I found an abstraction of the residue of the destruction.
 
Ultimately, my hands functioned like a printer with a particular filter. That is, personal images were broken down or disrupted into visual units. These units merged and created abstraction. The disruptive, chaotic process that was revealed when breaking rules and orders seemed aesthetically beautiful and new rules created from this process were more than interesting. The pop-up pieces and paintings were able to develop as they were results of extended experimentation with these new rules and orders. Two dimensional elements from collages and drawings formed by lines and dots were implemented into pop-up structures, which follow particular structural rules. Ultimately, an unnamable three-dimensional object arose from the merging of residues of the disrupted innate and physical world to emphasize new rules and orders. Pop-up structures enabled me to bring out basic visual units, innate rules, and illusions from two-dimensional work and transfer them into three-dimensional space. At the same time, three-dimensional illusions were implemented into my two-dimensional paintings.
 
It is exciting and enjoyable to work without predefining what the final outcome will be like, but, at the same time, not knowing the final outcome makes the work process more difficult. However, one thing for certain is that carrying out or reversing the circulation process among drawings, pop-ups, and paintings has a positive effect on my creative process. After all, my work is about the process of living life and finding personal issues and subjects within life, to make interests in life sustainable. Through the process of my work, I hope to experience new things with the rules that I define and the possibilities that I open.

- Kwon, Jaena