When I make my copperplate prints, I always try to make my latest work my masterpiece. In search of new ways of expression, I have adopted a roundabout method of taking photos of my own drawings with a camera and engraving them on a copperplate using a photoengraving process. I believe that this method allows me to capture the essence of my drawings on a copperplate without losing the sense of the moment, even beyond time. This is done through the “unmixed accuracy” that comes from “capturing the moment” which is one of the qualities of photographic expression. I believe that this is an indispensable process and concept for me as an etching artist working on the theme of “the ambiguity between fiction and reality.” In the future, I would like to research the historical relationship between copperplate engraving and photography, as well as techniques that apply photomechanical plate making, in order to discover the significance of my own copperplate engraving in the ever–expanding multifaceted contemporary art world.

With the YPA Award, I will purchase a printing press and other equipment necessary for printmaking, such as a warmer, tools for aquatint and a printer. Using this equipment, I will continue printmaking.

2022 YOUNG PRINTMAKER AWARD