Hea R. Kim is interested in creating playful, thoughtful, and technically-sophisticated installations. Having spent her childhood and adolescence in South Korea, she is heavily influenced by her home country, a visually saturated and somewhat whimsical place where ancient and modern co-exist as contemporaneous aesthetics. Exploring her cultural heritage, her in-depth studies in material processes allows for the overlapping of technical art processes, in order to interrogate the shifting edges of arts and crafts. She makes and arranges multiple complex object components imbued with a magical wonder and cultural significance from both Eastern and Western philosophies.