JU KAI is a visual artist whose work transforms emotional structures into a visual language of points, lines, and planes. She regards emotion not as fleeting sensation but as a layered architecture—something that accumulates, shifts, and remains.

Rooted in fine art training in South Korea and informed by her studies in psychology in the United States, her practice bridges the intuitive and the analytical. Deeply influenced by Wassily Kandinsky’s theories, she interprets the point as the origin of emotion, the line as its movement, and the plane as its accumulation. These elements are not symbolic, but compositional: tools to trace the invisible rhythms of feeling in space and time.

JU KAI handcrafts thick paper of Hanji, traditional Korean paper made from layered Dak fiber, which she prepares herself. Onto this surface, she combines printmaking techniques with sculptural processes—scratching, carving, layering—to inscribe the residues of emotion as geometric impressions. Her process is both meditative and physical, oscillating between order and chance, silence and density.

Through repetitive acts of building and erasing, her work asks: how do we give form to what is intangible? And how does emotion leave a trace—on our bodies, in memory, and in material? By translating the ephemeral into structure, JU KAI’s practice offers a quiet reflection on what it means to feel, to hold, and to let go.