PROCESS NOTE
My process is a conversation—unfinished, layered, and always shifting. I begin with fragments: a thread, a memory, a line of poetry, a moving image. I never quite know where it’s going, and that uncertainty is where I feel most alive. Whether working in fabric, animation, or language, I lean into the material’s resistance and rhythm. Sometimes it folds into something I recognize; other times it unravels into something I didn’t know I was holding.
Much of my practice is rooted in experimentation—combining old techniques with new technologies, or letting accidents shape the final form. I think of each piece as a soft translation of something deeper: of longing, of home, of inheritance. Rather than seeking resolution, I stay open to revision. The work often tells me when it’s ready—when the silence becomes part of the structure, when the gesture speaks louder than explanation.
This is not a process of perfection. It’s one of returning, reworking, and finding meaning in the mess.
Michelle Yun-jeong is a Korean-American visual artist and poet whose work moves between the seen and the spoken. Rooted in textile, animation, and language, her interdisciplinary practice explores themes of memory, displacement, and the multiplicity of home. Through tactile installations, moving image, and poetic text, Yun-jeong creates spaces where emotional landscapes unfold—quietly, rhythmically, and with intention.
Graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in Animation, Yun-jeong approaches artmaking as a form of translation: of culture, of womanhood, of silence into presence. Her films and installations have been exhibited internationally, including the Ottawa International Animation Festival, BAM, and Indie-AniFest. Her poetry, often composed alongside her visual work, acts as both anchor and apparition—grounding the abstract and animating the intimate.
Yun-jeong’s ongoing work investigates the porous boundaries between language and image, tradition and invention, and the quiet gestures that stitch them together.