VIDEO ART

PURA is an experimental video art series that explores the fragmented journey of self-discovery. Through broken, nonlinear visuals and emotionally charged imagery, the work reflects the process of confronting and reconstructing the self. 

Her video and film work evolved into a medium for examining family dynamics and personal relationships. Known for revealing what is often unseen or unspoken, the artist uses art as a tool to uncover buried truths. Through this lens, the work becomes an intimate exploration of attachment trauma, brought to light through the reprocessing of memories of emotional abuse experienced since childhood.

In this first video, the artist reflects on images of herself as a baby, drawn from archival family videos shot on super 8 from VHS transferred to video editing software. In her video art and films, she often begins with what is visible in the public eye before gradually revealing what is hidden beneath. From this perspective, she exposes the truths that exist behind the constructed identities. 

This collection serves as a vessel for a deeper soul-retrieval process—an attempt to reclaim lost or fractured parts of identity. The earliest videos emerged unconsciously, driven by an inner need for truth-seeking and self-discovery. Through healing attachment trauma, the artist came to realize that identity is not fixed. She recognized that her sense of self had been shaped by trauma.

 From this understanding, transformation has become a questioning and shift in identity itself. Her work reflects this process of becoming. Water in PURA represents purification. It embodies the healing process the artist had to undergo in order to revisit her past, creating space for deeper understanding of the self to transform.

The creation of PURA was not an easy process. It began as a film project in graduate school, but the depth of emotional excavation required made it impossible to complete within two years. As the artist engaged in reprocessing traumatic memories, the act of creation itself became deeply challenging—each piece shaped by the intensity of revisiting and transforming lived experience.