Nearly every facet of life that we understand is dependent on our visual perception of the world, predisposing us to only see the “present”. But it is not difficult to find out that our world is composed with two antithetical ideas; presence and absence, which are life and death. These ideas can be understood in the Buddhist philosophy of “Emptiness”—every existence, on every single moment that has ever existed, can only understood between the past and future. The abstract nature of this concept is often difficult to grasp, but my work is an attempt to secularize this fundamental idea. Through the irony of my working process, which is visualizing non-visuals, I try to question this non-describable concept—the continual parallels of presence and absence, inseparability of life and death. Negative space in various structures of books or installations is the essential part of my work. It is the empty space, which suggests to readers or viewers a meditative moment. In this moment, the negative space provides an opportunity to reflect on themselves and the meaning of Emptiness in their lives. I cut out pages, burn out texts, hang prints in the space or cast various containers to create a physical and metaphorical Emptiness in my work. The important parts of the structures are absent. The absence becomes a presence in the visual objects. My working process is always repetitive, to represent every single moment as a timeless space in between absence and presence, as well as providing a visual/invisible concept of their interrelationship. The effect of light and shadow, and the delicacy in the strength of thin paper are most commonly used in my work as a metaphor of the inseparability of life and death, as well as an installation device to create two conceptual spaces—one side and another in the same space. I sometimes use my personal narrative to reveal my own cultural understanding of losing (absence), and regaining (memory after realizing absence) in human life. Another theme is the number 108, a significant idea in Buddhism. Viewers participate in a simulated meditative practice when contemplating the meaning of “Emptiness” through observing my work, similar to Buddhists who repeat their vows 108 times, using 108 beads. It is my practice to cut out pages, burn out texts, and repeat printing 108 times— not only a personal meditative process but also to perpetuate the idea of Emptiness. Recently, I have cast hand-made paper into various forms including vases, cups, glasses, bottles, and bowls to allow for the visualization of the invisible— emptiness in the visual world. I did not cast the physical containers, but their interiors, the essence of container true being, which is their emptiness. For it is this emptiness that is what we use in a container, its negative space within. The cast objects is not present in the finished casts, instead it is the presence of their emptiness that remains in the cast. Upon observation, I would like the audience to think about the meaning of absence in our lives as part of nature, through their own interpretation of “Emptiness” as perceived through my work.