Meet Seyeong Ji | Artist & Creater

We had the good fortune of connecting with Seyeong Ji and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Seyeong, let’s talk legacy – what do you want yours to be?
1. Every moment was a coincidence. I started my work after one of my friends suggested it to me during COVID-19. I was studying as an art student at university, but I did not start anything to introduce myself through art, and I was spiritless during the COVID-19 lockdown because I couldn’t do anything on my own. At that time, I was texting my friends daily, and they suggested I create my Instagram account. My photography mood was good when I uploaded my photographs and wrote on my personal Instagram stories during 14 days of quarantine. I was bored during the COVID-19 lockdown, so I needed something to do to make myself feel fresh and active. After I searched my photos from the past to now, and after i checked that i took more than 5,000 photographs on my phone just at the time, i could feel like “I’m already ready.”

2. I’m not a professional; I’m usually close to amateur. I typically focus on the emotion in the art, especially love. I’m a romantic, but I know it can be overflowing for expression because I readily feel a troubled mind. However, I love to describe many emotions based on love, even though I draw on contemporary art or take photos. I think there are all feelings in the word “love” in my life. Maybe it would be one of my industries.

3. I think I will bring out my project from the risk; also, it would be one of my inspirations as I am very closely affected by self-breakdown.
Every moment, I think that we are living together within the risk. Sometimes, it would remind the past or future of myself. I think the risk in my life would start from a disaster in controlling my emotions for everything around me. However, I understand how to grow up from the risk. “take the risk” would balance my life and career. I feel that the risk can be an extension of my views in life. Risk-taking is the word in a sentence that describes how to grow up “step by step” in life and career.

4. Friends. If I had never met them, I would not have thought about how to live my life more affirmatively for the future. I’m a weak person for coming to risk in life. I know that my mood can change by thoroughly listening to music for just two or three minutes, and then that would be one to introduce myself to much of an emotional person. They do not give me comfort directly, like good quotes online, but I always engage with them through their way of life. My healthy mind for life would be the greatest inspiration for my career or dream. They make me live more than more. Also, the most crucial decision would be to stay with them through the growing up in my whole life.

5. I don’t limit myself to deciding the meaning or environment of the love like ‘ it is love’ or ‘it is not a love’ especially. These meanings would be represented when I think about the meaning of the success viewpoint in my life.
Love is the most essential factor cause it would be a motive power for me creatively. My life is still insufficient to maximize experience, but i always explain, “My life is included in love.” Love and life words sound similar to me. I love these feelings, and I’m in love with living my life. These emotions bring out my art, from drawing my painting to photography. I always remind myself what would be the most important for my success, and then i say that the main idea is the love at the back of my success.

6. Whether it is sustainable or not, there is a gap between my story and the public’s perspective and balance in my life.
The things I’m doing don’t have clear names or titles. There is no exact job title, visible achievements, or position. These things also existed in my personal life. What I felt at that time was that although I could gain vast freedom because I had no name, the loss and responsibility that came later would be double. So I think all the decisions you must make in such moments are the most difficult. And now, deciding what to do after college graduation may be the most challenging decision. It’s a decision with a very long shelf life, and I’m nervous about what will happen, but I don’t hate this feeling. It may hurt a lot, but I don’t feel in vain.

7. I usually worked together between studying and creating myself because I was a student at university. Also, most projects became my portfolios. I always focused on my personal stories in my art. Also, my daily life can make me more focused on my art. This balance should be necessary for how I work in my life. Sometimes, i like to focus on the project or work better than my life because i love to focus on one emotion myself, but i know that if i get one, i must lose the other. I try to keep the balance between work and life close to the same because I get inspiration for my life.

8. “Tempus fugit, amor manet” ; “Time files, love endures.” This is a sentence that provides insight into every aspect of my work and It would be to explain how to live in my life. I haven’t decided on the meaning of “love,” but I will know that only the word love is the best way to express my life every year.

9. When I was a high school student, i took an art class. Before i came to art class as a high school student, I just did art based on interest or hobby because I learned basic skills as a middle school student. When I came to the art classroom as a high school student, I felt like my inner voice was saying, “Here will be the most comfortable place for me.” I don’t know why I want to learn more about art than other studies, but art has helped me improve myself more than I do now. I think that I always feel like “never give up” as may be expected of these areas based on art.

10. My works hope to always live in others’ summers, like nostalgia. However, it would be okay for people who cannot remember me. I believe that our happiness or sadness can become part of our growth. The only thing I wish is that we would always love each other. That will be all for me.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
I realized while drawing that I have an exceptionally high interest in emotions. I like engraving my heart on canvas. As a living person, I am a human being who constantly feels hurt and happy, so the inspiration my heart gives me is endless. These two meanings that feel natural are what I look forward to more from these days. What defines artists and creators is a field I cannot reach, even with numerous mind maps. Paradoxically, it may be the closest to the most primitive thing a person can do after birth. Although I started my personal story a very long time ago, my relationship with the public I meet while exposing myself to the world has not yet adequately begun, so my current professional position is at the starting point of moving forward. I still feel like there is no easy way to explain myself. The vast freedom and greater responsibility supported in a place where there is no correct answer and the various stories discovered in the absence of a correct answer fascinate me so intensely in this field that it makes me feel that it is both the most difficult and the easiest at the same time. The mindset of not thinking too deeply about overcoming difficulties and just giving it a go has helped me professionally. More importantly, I am already very much myself, so I always realize that I must look at the big picture of how I want to express myself rather than adding or subtracting things first. When this process breaks down, I wander around for quite some time. There are still times when I stumble due to my unstable mind, but I try not to forget this process of looking at it from afar. I once said, “When I draw a picture, I don’t think as much about the main theme. If I start with something too meaningful, I won’t be able to move forward, and I will get eaten up by the picture, and it can lose the other.” There is no correct answer, so this is one of the methods I use, and it serves as a driving force that makes me want to do this a little longer. Any fears that prevent expression must eventually be expressed. Knowing whether I will be described as my unstable mind can only be known when I reveal it. It is not a matter of discussing whether one is right or wrong, but listening to the narrative, back story, and inner thoughts that can be expressed and expressed is the picture I want to draw and one side of the ideological person I want to become. It is the process of revealing myself, what I have learned in life, the wounds I have shared with others, love, and further healing.
Furthermore, my brand contains photos that capture moments, writings like bookmarks, a heart that will be remembered forever, and a desire to constantly explore and recognize the thought, ‘I am alive here and now,’ and to move forward. While recording myself, I will try to create the mindset that I will be remembered, left behind, and will live on. The mindset of not thinking too deeply about overcoming difficulties and just giving it a go has helped me professionally. More importantly, I am already very much myself, so I always realize that I must look at the big picture of how I want to express myself rather than adding or subtracting things first.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I have a lots of favorite spots in the cities. Firstly, I’m living in San Diego now, and I love for “Windnsea Beach” in La Jolla. When I needed to find a photo spot for my project photography class, I went to many places in San Diego alone. Then, I found one of my favorite beaches in San Diego. I love nature, like hiking, forests, or the ocean, and spending time with myself. The ocean waves were excellent, and the sunset was one of the most beautiful moments in my memories when I took landscape photography. I love to visit museums or art exhibitions. Also near La Jolla is the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego. I love the architecture of the museums, and almost all museums based on contemporary art focus on many points of architecture. The harmonization between the nature of San Diego and contemporary artwork will be a good experience because sometimes, I remember the museum’s construction. Finally, I love a cocktail bar called “Raised by Wolves.”
The main reason I chose these places because I love being there, from entering to leaving the bar. I think this reason can explain why I have been there so worthwhile.

Secondly, I lived in Guam on the island, where there was a beautiful beach and a beautiful sky. I thought that was my starting point for falling in love with nature. I love the beach called “Ritidian Beach.” I have never seen clear water in the world looked like there, even though I have been to a few places.

Lastly, The city’s vibes are one of my favorite moods, and I love to look around the art district of Los Angeles or Seoul, Korea. I like walking around the art district alone or with friends. One of my favorite spots is called “HaeBangChon,” and there is a fancy cafe, and I love to walk around there to listen to music. I love to walk, and my favorite city spot must have included a cozy and green vibe. Lastly, I traveled with my mom to Tokyo this spring, which was my first trip with my mom. We found one of the dessert shops for Lemon pie. I watched these shops in the Traveling Guide book, and i felt like I already wanted to go to the shop. Of course, the taste of lemon pies was great. If I need to Check out to have fun with my friends, I will choose the street to walk, around nature and nearby cafe. That will be one of the key points in choosing my favorite spots in the city.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I want to dedicate to my friends. I always get inspiration for my life, especially the people around me. Even if somebody becomes one part of my memories in the past, each one spent on me gives me memories, and I could grow through creativity in my work. Every year, when I’m older, i feel that i have some stories that I can’t tell my family. I was far away from being a straightforward person to say my personal stories to my friends because I felt scared lest they become far off from me after they heard my agony. At that time, my friends shared their time with me to listen to my mind even though I couldn’t catch all of what I wanted to do or what I wanted to say about my agony. Also, friends helped me become more natural and support me. They make me want better than now. I learned about life through the attitude of how they love themselves.

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Image Credits
1. Ocean wave _ Ink and paper
2. Falling Suddenly; I hope to pour minds into the cup, but the cup spills repeatedly. _ Oil painting
3. Empty room _ Oil painting
4. The depths of the sea _ Self portraits, Oil Painting
5. Stars _ Santa Monica Pier
6. Coming _ Coronado, San Diego
7. Pure _ Guam, United States
8. Personal photos _ photographer: Chaemoo Kim