Other Ways of Being

For Sangyon Joo, photography is a tool for the thought process of looking and recognizing. External objects become an internal landscape reflecting the artist's senses and thoughts, and they are restructured according to her cognitive flow and associations. Through observing nature such as as land, sky, lakes, and trees, Joo practices various perspectives to reconnect with herself as a part of nature. The artist, having gained a new perspective on the act of seeing through an incident that nearly resulted in losing her eyesight, connects the blood vessels in her x-ray photos to tree branches or jusxtaposes them with other objects, thus intertwining the inner and outer landscapes.