Happenings—created over four years—forms an imagined timescape, alluding to both the celestial and the cellular. This work is an extension of my mind and body, firmly rooted in the physical. It is a meditation on process and time. Through the action of the hand, I seek order, quietness, and rhythm—a deeply human rhythm that allows me to slow down. This deliberate slowness heightens my perception of the moment, teaching patience and focus. Each stitch marks the rhythms of the hand, a delicate performance of obsessive intricacy. Stitching becomes a means to explore the subtle differences that emerge through ritualistic and habitual making—working in and with time itself. These differences only reveal themselves upon close inspection. From a distance, the marks dissolve into fields of binary tones. Through meticulous multiples of dots, I record time and map space. In quantum physics, time is not continuous but granular—appearing smooth and orderly at a large scale yet chaotic when examined closely. Carlo Rovelli describes this as the "frenzied swarming of quanta." My marks echo this granularity. Each seeding stitch acts as a comma or full stop, a signifier of lived time. Stitching serves as a metaphor for human life. The front of the embroidery, curated and precise, reflects the version we present to the world—a map of careful steps and past journeys. In contrast, the back reveals a dense, chaotic network—the unseen connective tissue essential to the whole. This interplay of order and complexity symbolizes the interconnectedness of everything. Displayed at the room’s centre, the work invites viewers to orbit it, seeing both sides as part of a complete and whole entity. As I make, I reveal. As I make, the world fades, replaced by an imagined landscape rendered onto fabric. In this way, materials become a site of consciousness and being.

This work received the Bronze Award at the 13th Cheongju International Craft Competition. Happenings, was exhibited as part of the Cheongju Craft Biennale from September to November 2025, and then joins the permanent collection of the Korean Craft Museum.