HOLYDAY (2021 - 2023)

“We lift our foot from the solid ground of all our life lived thus far, and take that perilous step out into the empty air. Not because we can claim any particular courage, but because there is no other way.”

― Han Kang, 흰

Holyday is a reckoning with pain. At twenty‑three I felt a part of me slip away, pale and brief through the cracks of terror. As a shard, a fragment, a group of moments, I picked up my grandfather’s camera. I had arrived upon my life as a foreigner.

Photographed over nineteen months in and around my home, Holyday is a completed documentary project that narrates post‑traumatic stress disorder. I followed my family members, rearranging their body language to match the surreal, storied images in my mind. It is an exploration of the aftermath of surviving an attempted hijacking and witnessing a double suicide within the span of a week.