For now, I can say that I'd like to pick "this" or "that" which people unconsciously embrace. Simple structures and motifs selected, therefore, are never to be dissembled. Through the medium of painting, I stand, without words, face to face with both the inside of myself and viewers. I always keep records of events, passing through in our everyday lives, and consumed motifs. Nothing appears in my works that I've never experienced with my foot, eyes, and hands.
Besides, apparel to the art works, I draw up "My Map" in which I take down the place, the condition, and the time I found motifs. Based on this, my own world is developed on paper, where actual spots and my internal face are integrated.
It is one and only true reality. It is also a record of some type of sin between our everyday unconsciousness and outburst of emotions. What is absolutely certain is we are, by no means, able to escape our "lives".

Faceless figures as nobody, in other words, as anybody.
I am strongly drawn to such ambiguous portraits.
In this ambiguity lies, among others, the reality.
The fact that the ambiguity represents myself is accompanied by the theme "relation"
when I do my art work.
While my works strike the viewers as pop and catchy, I see the flatness I aim for in pursuit of the nature
of painting beyond graphical expressions.

Yu Kiwanami

I always see books on the shelves when I go to somebody’s house. I can imagine their favorites and their recent interests through those books. The curiosity to other people and the love for books led me to draw bookshelves in my surroundings. Books must desire to be held by somebody, and they are getting ready and wait. It is a duty and a job of books.
I sense books are breathing and have souls when I enter a books space which is packed with infinite ideas and feelings, and I am also nervous in front of books lined up by a rule. I keep drawing silence and mixed emotion in a limited space as a bookshelf.

The image of painting is based on photographs. Taking photographs of bookshelves around me and KYOBO(Korean franchise book store), I paint from those images.
Names on book covers - Pablo Picasso,Marc Chagall,and Henri Matisse - are the names of great painters in art history which everyone has heard once.
Books in my paintings are not merely printed materials: I hope they hold time and history by encountering great masters’ names and inspire the audience to imagine values of the painters and their art works. There is someone among the audience who already keeps the book, and her/his time transfers to a new moment experiencing the parallel world.
The sensation of a huge world meeting books in bookshelves is the space which I eager to create.

The constructive tension and uncertain dark space of vertical books whose sizes and titles are unknown in my paintings give impression to my audience by stimulating their imagination like they are entering vast bookshelves, and I hope everyone to love his/her ordinary spaces behind the life.