SANGSUG KIM - Between Us - Precious Things Bloom V

Symbolic meanings: Between Us - Precious Things Bloom

In this work, the ladder is not simply a device for upward movement, but a symbol of time unfolding in life. As we move through time, we encounter countless experiences and relationships, continuously shaping and reshaping one another. Relationships are not formed in an instant; rather, they gradually deepen over time and become an integral part of our lives.

At the end of the ladder, the pillow represents a continuously forming human existence. The folds that appear on its surface are traces of time once inhabited—records of encounters, relationships, and the forces we have met along the way. The process of folding and unfolding becomes a metaphor for how human beings are shaped through lived experience and relational encounters, continuously changing and growing.

We are not completed beings, but rather entities constantly being folded and unfolded through time and relationships. Life is the record of these accumulated traces.

What underlies these works is not a fixed form, but a continuous process of becoming. Flowers continue to bloom, nests continue to be built, ritual poles continue their acts of invocation, relationships deepen over time, and pillows continually form new folds. Each element exists not as a finished state, but as an ongoing process of transformation shaped by time, encounter, and connection.