Hello! I am a Swedish-Korean adoptee, researcher,
and illustrator.
My work centers on illustration, sequential storytelling, and visual communication, often exploring mellanförskap, (betweenship), belonging, longing, heritage, race, class, and ethnicity.
I work with autoethnographic material through drawing, painting, photography, and text. Illustration, with its capacity for visual layering, allows me to communicate complex ideas in an accessible way while challenging the notion of a single, default academic research language. My practice draws on a wide range of sources, from scholarly writing to popular culture.
Much of my work has focused on rural working-class imagery and on overlooked aesthetics such as watercolor, ornament, the “pretty,” and the “cute”, questioning why these have so often been dismissed as apolitical or superficial. I am interested in craft, ornament, and color as forms of resistance to colonial and neoliberal values embedded in visual communication, and in how such aesthetics can be used to challenge dominant visual norms.