I LOVE YOU – ADORE GALLERY

Welcome, and thank you for visiting my modest gallery tucked away in a quiet corner.

Here you will find a variety of my works—large and small, diverse in character and spirit. I arranged them in this way because, seen together, they may give you a clearer sense of who I am.

To be honest, I often feel my lack of formal training and the limited time I have been able to devote to art. Yet I continue without pause—feeling, learning, and growing in the process.

I am not a master of any single field, nor do I belong wholly to any place. Take what you see as it is, and carry with you whatever impressions remain. Though I began in earnest later in life, I have always sought to keep faith with my first intent—to let neither results nor criticism define me, but to follow the quiet integrity of my own path in art.

At times, a sudden impulse led me to submit small works to competitions, and a few were recognized. In Korea, I once taught art at a high school for about ten years. In 2009, after twenty years of living in Australia, I returned to Korea, where I now work as a sculptor. That, in essence, is the whole of my artistic journey.

I have no interest in heavy philosophy. What moves me are the kinds of impressions that feel like music, and the vivid realities that the world tirelessly brings forth.

I love travel and every kind of documentary, and hold special respect for the creators of BBC Earth, whose programs I watch with admiration. And one thing is certain: without music, I imagine my veins would carry nothing but plain water.

Perhaps artists are simply those who live in the busy square between the entrance of expectation and the exit of fulfillment.

Even if you arrived here by chance, I am grateful.

Yoonki Hong
Born 1952

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February 15, 2026

Poems & Writing

I LOVE YOU

I LOVE YOU

I love you,
I love you in a way that cannot be explained,
in a form that cannot be confessed,
in a contradictory manner.

I love you
with all my moods — so many of them —
that constantly change my states,
as you already know:
time, life, death.

I love you…
with the world I do not understand,
with people I do not understand,
with the ambivalence of my soul,
with the incoherence of my actions,
with the fatality of destiny,
with the conspiracy of desire,
with the ambiguity of facts.

Even when I tell you I do not love you — I love you.
Even when I betray you — I do not betray you.
Deep within, I am fulfilling a plan:
to love you better.

I love you…
without reflection, unconsciously, irresponsibly,
spontaneously, involuntarily,
by instinct, like an impulse, irrationally.

In truth, I have no logical arguments,
not even improvised ones,
to justify the love I feel for you —
a love that appeared mysteriously from nothing,
that has solved nothing magically,
and yet, miraculously, little by little,
with almost nothing,
has softened the evil within me.

I love you,
I love you with a body that does not think,
with a heart that does not reason,
with a mind that does not coordinate.

I love you incomprehensibly,
without asking myself why I love you,
regardless of why I love you,
without questioning it at all.

I love you
simply because I love you.
Even I do not know why I love you…

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