The Remaining Echo, 2025

A drawing teacher once posed a question that lingered with me: Is originality the creation of something unseen, or is it a return to the origin itself? Rather than chase novelty, I chose to look backward - to return to the cradle of civilization: Mesopotamia. It is there, in the fertile soil between the Tigris and Euphrates, that the earliest expressions of science, art, literature, and technology first emerged. What we often call modern is in truth a continuation of what was already imagined thousands of years ago.

After every gesture has been echoed through time, what does it mean to call something "original"? The remaining echo is not a reconstruction, but a reawakening. Beginning with the figure of the Winged Bull - a guardian spirit once stationed at the gates of ancient cities - this body of work seeks to summon the essence of Mesopotamia into a new form. Here, the ancient becomes contemporary, not by imitation, but through transformation. The artifacts of the past are not relics; they are living echoes, awaiting rebirth in the language of our time.

In revisiting the origin, we do not escape the present - we deepen it. The past does not belong to history alone. It belongs to now.