"There are no true winners in war. Every conflict leaves lasting scars. Long after the smoke has cleared and the wounds have healed, what remains are stories of resilience and the hope that carried people forward."
This series took shape through the artist's travels through Europe and Japan, the artist encountered memorials and preserved ruins where destruction was intentionally left visible. These places revealed a different understanding of healing.
He transforms these encounters into ambiguous figures and luminous compositions in which beauty and unease coexist. Rather than monumentalizing war of celebrating heroism, the painting ask how people continue to rebuild, remember, and hope while carrying the weight of history.
- Concept of Artworks -
"Rather than depicting war itself, I examine what societies choose to preserve and rebuild after violence has ended."
-KP
- Symbolic Metaphor -
Sadako Sasaki Statue:
She is remembered through the story of the one thousand origami cranes she folded before her death, and is to this day a symbol of the innocent victims of nuclear warfare. In other meaning, folding crane can be seen as a symbolic of 'hopefulness'.
Through luminous compositions and symbolic forms, the paintings reveal emotional trauma beneath an unexpected sense of beauty.
- Eastern Philosophy -
"I enjoy bringing together rough, worn, and fragile materials with polished glazed surfaces. I am interested in the moment when beauty and damage no longer oppose each other, but become part of the same story."
-KP
"I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things human make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion."
-Yohji Yamamoto
