UNIVERSEARTH

UNIVERSEARTH is a body of work that contemplates the position of human existence and the temporality of nature by viewing the Earth’s landscapes as if they were part of an unfamiliar planet.

The scenes presented in the images do not resemble the Earth we commonly recognize; rather, they appear like terrains discovered on an unknown world. Confronted with vast and nonhuman scales of land, humans are revealed not as the center of the world but as small beings who temporarily inhabit nature. Within endlessly expanding landscapes and spaces approaching silence, the human gaze begins to waver, prompting us to reconsider our habitual ways of perceiving nature and the world. The work captures the moment in which humans encounter the scale of nature and newly recognize their own existence within it.

At the same time, the work serves as a record of a changing Earth. Melting glaciers and shifting terrains suggest that the landscapes we witness today may not continue to exist in the same way. Within these majestic scenes, the passage of disappearance is also quietly present.

In this work, nature is not presented as a simple backdrop but as a site that transforms human perception and sensation. Standing before these unfamiliar images of the Earth, viewers are invited to reconsider the planet we inhabit and to question the position of human existence within it.