Kaywon University of Art & Design, BFA in illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). Herok is currently pursuing an MFA in Painting & Drawing at Pratt Institute.
Herok’s work focuses on memory, identity, and the essence of creation. He reflects on emotional changes derived from his military experiences and childhood memories through a process of scraping and layering various levels of memory.
This process visually reflects the duality of destruction and regeneration. Herok’s work considers the cycles and accumulation in nature, and his interactions within it, he draws similarities to the way we perceive and reconstruct memory. In that the constant changes and interactions in nature symbolically represent how
memories are formed and reformed. These elements of are serve as key sources of inspiration for Herok’s work, contributing to his visual exploration of the layered and fluid nature of memory. Herok is based in New york/ Atlanta/ South Korea.
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