‘Hakolfan’, The peeler,  is a series of contemporary figurative paintings, exploring ‘Quiet Distance’ as an emotional condition and as something that settles into the body, into relationships and into our memory. In this series, distance appear also as a quiet force that takes shape within intimacy itself. It begins in moments when someone who should have seen, held or entered remains at the threshold instead. It reappears later inside other close relationships as the fear of its return in a new form. And over time, it no longer exists only between figures. It is absorbed into the body, becoming a weight, a posture, fatigue and an inner residue.

Together the works in this series trace a movement between the origin of an emotional fracture, the way it returns inside closeness and the way it continues to live in the body even when it is no longer spoken aloud. This series lingers in life quiet moments, as forms of closeness that do not quite hold, as distances that slowly seep in and as emotional memories that continue to echo through the body long after the moment itself has passed.