When I created Pillow Garden, I wanted to invite people into an immersive space filled with oversized, plant-inspired soft sculptures. I intertwined these forms with sound, fragrance, and tactile sensations to transform the traditional, rigid gallery environment into something more like a sensory sanctuary.

For me, this work challenges those hard boundaries we often encounter—between hard and soft, art and craft, adulthood and childhood, or even dominance and marginality. I’m always looking for a space where these contrasts can coexist peacefully, a personal vision of Utopia.

As visitors move through Pillow Garden, I hope they’re drawn into a deeper relationship with the space around them, finding moments of escapism and even forgetting themselves for a while.

I had the pleasure of collaborating with Seung Yeon Park, whose soundscape, The Song of Tree, adds another layer to the experience. Seung Yeon’s composition blends ambient sounds from Totara Park, just near my home, with traditional Korean instruments like percussion and clarinet. The wood, metal, and leather materials of the instruments resonated with the soft sculptures, creating a harmonious connection between New Zealand’s natural environment and my imagined world. blends seamlessly with New Zealand’s natural soundscape to create a harmonious sonic tapestry.