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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85 Cheongun-ro, Mungyeong-eup, Mungyeong-si Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea

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THE ONLY PATH

NO PEOPLE CAN WALK UNARMED INTO THE HANDS OF HISTORY

It must be the only path—
yet at the edge of collapse,
you demand of Palestine this road:
to erase its own name,
to surrender its defense,
to walk unarmed into history.
It was the only path—
a dot in the palm of God,
where names once stood in dignity
and flowers of glory lined the way.

But now—
at the table of world leaders,
your bargains sit upon dishonor.
Even carpets woven with gold threads
are stripped of their color,
when laid over ruins soaked with tears.

You who cannot discern what even a child would know—
with what face, with what authority,
do you cast aside the only path,
the righteous path of a people’s survival?

Where else would you strip away an army?
Would you grow the monster of tyranny still larger,
and leave the already devoured
with no voice, no defense?

Hurry—
vacate your thrones,
climb the spire that pierces heaven,
and ring the bell of repentance,
until even the sky bears witness
to your shame.

#Palestine
#RightToDefend
#JusticeForPalestine
#NoDefenseNoPeace
#UnarmedTruth
#VoiceOfConscience
#BellOfRepentance
#HumanDignity
#StandForJustice
#HistoryWillJudge
#SanctionIsraelNow
#10NewsAustralia

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