Sakdong Play draws from sakdong, a traditional Korean striped silk historically used in children’s garments during the Joseon dynasty. Known for its seemingly discordant yet balanced color combinations, sakdong embodies a visual logic where harmony emerges not from uniformity, but from juxtaposition.

This series expands that principle into a broader cultural and symbolic framework. Garments and forms from diverse traditions—sari draping, Rococo silhouettes, kimono structures, and hanbok references—are interwoven with hybridized coiffures that merge Korean court styles, European powdered wigs, and afro-textured forms. These elements, once rooted in specific histories and identities, are deliberately displaced and recomposed.

By treating cultural markers as modular signifiers rather than fixed inheritances, Sakdong Play explores identity as an act of assembly. The work questions the notion of purity in both aesthetics and culture, proposing instead a fluid, constructed hybridity—one that reflects the layered realities of contemporary global experience.

Like sakdong itself, the compositions resist conventional pairings while achieving an internal coherence. Harmony, here, is not given—it is negotiated.