The body is the place where emotions, time, wounds, and recovery leave their most direct traces.
To paint the body is not simply to reproduce its form, but to confront the finiteness of existence.

 

This project is a painting practice that seeks to understand and express the body more deeply.
In this process, I began searching for materials that could resonate with the body itself, which led me to the making of natural pigments.

 

Extracting color from plants, flowers, fruits, and earth is a continuous process of transformation.
Boiling, settling, drying, and changing matter into another state.
All of this mirrors what happens within our own bodies.
This process of change also resembles the way the body transforms over time, ages, and eventually disappears.

 

In this project, natural pigment is not simply a medium, but a material that carries both the body’s materiality and its finiteness.

 

What matters here is not only the finished painting.
The entire process—collecting materials, extracting color, observing change, and recording each stage—is itself part of the work.
The time spent making pigment, the reactions of matter, the failures and mutations are all included as an expanded form of painting and as a way of understanding the body.