Haejin Park (b. South Korea, 1992) is a painter whose practice expands through watercolor, ink, acrylic, and pastel to chart the movement of interior states across porous, breathing surfaces. Born from an attunement to emotion as a physical event, her works articulate feeling as atmosphere, weather, and tension. Park treats painting as a site of transformation in which memory, humor, and somatic pressure cohere into a shifting visual language. Her compositions emerge from a pace that is closer to thinking than depicting, where color bleeds, line coils, and images appear and dissolve in the same gesture. Across her practice, she draws from Korean familial expressions, childhood idioms, and interpersonal subtexts, using language as mark and mark as language to locate the instability and absurdity of interior life.

In She Chooses Her Portrait, 2025, a pale, luminous field stages the act of self-selection. A faint central form hovers like a face in decision, surrounded by drifting blue and pink filaments that suggest competing versions of the self. Park positions identity as a mutable gesture rather than a stable outline, allowing the viewer to witness the pause before a choice is made.