2026
Decals of hand-woven photographs in fused glass broken in 3 parts, custom brass mounts, neon (argon, mercury)
Dimensions Overall: 23 x 58 1/2 x 3 7/8 inches (58 x 148 x 9 cm)
Glass: 23 x 15 1/4 x 3/4 inches (58.4 x 38.7 x 1.9 cm)
Ladder / Chain, Two-person exhibition at Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
Detail view of Bodiless Travels V
2026
Decals of hand-woven photographs fused in slumped glass, custom brass mount
Dimensions 16 ¾ x 9 × 5 in
2026
Decals of hand-woven photographs in fused glass, custom brass mount
Glass: 25 ¾ in x 10 ½ in x ⅛ in
In Parabolic Traces – scrolling around held hands, 3D scanned I, two held hands appear simultaneously truncated and collaged. The work considers the hand as a nodal part of the body for human connection. When I visited my grandmother, whom I call umni (an endearing term in a Korean dialect), in the winter of 2025, I 3D scanned our hands held together on a mobile device. Considering the hand's invisibility in screen-based communication, my photo-based glass work draws attention to a sense of embodied longing. Woven into the screenshots of the held hands are splices of a photograph of a sunset—a marker of curving time stretched in visible light—that I experienced and captured in Brooklyn, New York.
2026
Decals of woven photographs fused in slumped glass, custom stained wood stand, neon (argon, mercury)
Dimensions variable (slumped glass: 23” x 36 ½ in x 5 in)
In my Bodiless Travels series, I hand-weave a pair of images from two distant places, rephotograph them, and fuse them into slumped glass. The work begins from hand-weaving spliced photographs from my personal archive, often drawing a direct reference to my grandfather's funeral, which I was unable to attend, alongside moments when I experienced the transient nature of time, such as a reflection of light entering my studio during a residency in Vermont. I bring the two images together in an attempt to fold ungraspable moments and experiences into a single surface and dimension. In this work, the image serves as a point of departure rather than an arrival; through my multi-layered process, which often demands heavy labor and careful attention to material, Bodiless Travels questions what it means to exist with or without a body, particularly in an age so reliant on digitally mediated interaction. Probing the shifting relationship between being, memory, and spatiotemporal perception, the architectural neon often punctures through the opalescent slumped glass. In Bodiless Travels VI, in particular, I explore this liminal space through the geometric use of delta—a visual language historically tied to notions of door, change, and difference.
2026
Decals of hand-woven photographs fused in slumped glass, custom wood stand
41 ⅓ x 23 ⅞ x 22 in
2026
Decals of artist’s writing fused in glass
27 ¼ x 10 ¼ x ⅛ in
“Sometime between winter and spring, I got a burn mark from cooking oil splattering from a heated pan. The oil droplets crackled and one landed slightly above the tender crease of my right arm. I showed the lightly grilled mark, about half an inch long round smudge, to umma.
Umma said, umni has so many of them. She has countless burn marks especially all over her right forearm. I had thought they were age marks of sort.
What else have I overlooked that’s been there all along?
What else yet to be known?“
Exhibition view
Ladder / Chain, two-person exhibition by Juyon Lee and Emma Safir at Hesse Flatow, New York
Exhibition view
Left: Parabolic Traces (screenshot of umni’s mobile 3D scanned hand, when she came out to see me leave at dawn)
Right: Parabolic Traces - Burnmark Video Call I and Bodiless Travels VI
Center: Parabolic Traces - Burnmark Video Call I
Right: Bodiless Travels VI
Exhibition view
Left: Bodiless Travels VI
Second from right: Parabolic Traces - scrolling around held hands 3D scanned I
Right: what else yet to be known and Parabolic Traces - Burnmark Video Call I
2026
Decals of hand-woven photographs in fused glass, custom brass mounts
Dimensions variable (glass: 22 ⅝ x 10 x ⅛ in)
2026
Decals of hand-woven photographs in fused glass, custom brass mount
Glass: 12 ¼ x 9 ½ x ⅛ in