A conversation with rkw

I go by rkw (ray-kim-won), Korean-Thai, born in 1995, raised in Kyoto, Japan. Based in New York City. “I make things very simple.” Not because my life is simple but because the truth gets clearer when there’s less in the way. I’m drawn to essence: shapes, silence, stillness. Homes, towers, buildings, boats, chairs, fishing rods. “Things that carry more than they show.” “I used to think doing art meant doing more, but the most honest style came when I stopped trying to make things more, and just let it be. There’s a kind of wisdom in watching. Not to judge. Not to solve. Just to deliver what’s really there.” My process is the king. Intentional. I let ideas grow at their own pace. A small line can hold weight. A quiet work can say something loud. I believe something simple can become meaningful, if you give it room to prove itself.

CREATURES

There is something profoundly disarming in the way Creatures speaks to us. Not with a voice, but with memory.