grinding stone

Grinding Stone is a meditative and performative process that begins before painting itself. Using carved stones brought from Korea, the artist grinds them against sandpaper, an act that gathers her energy into her hands and focuses her entire body into one gesture. Through this friction, the palm, the stone, the sandpaper, and the artist’s own body become aligned, forming a tactile unity between matter and being.

This process is both a grounding ritual and the foundation of her painting practice. It connects the artist’s body to the ecology of touch, where stone dust mingles with breath, rhythm turns into surface, and repetition becomes a quiet dialogue with material time. The work is not only about preparing to paint but about entering a state where hand, earth, and surface move together as one living organism.