jaemee studio

As an artist and landscape architect, I am interested in deliberately blurring the boundaries between two disciplines: object and landscape. My work explores the ways in which landscapes can be abstracted, condensed, or reconfigured into discrete physical objects, and conversely, how objects can expand into immersive, spatial experiences that evoke or operate as landscapes. This reciprocal transformation creates a generative ambiguity where categorical distinctions begin to fade.

The outcomes of my practice manifest as assemblages or fields composed of human-occupiable objects. These works prioritize placemaking and embodied experience over purely visual aesthetics, offering participants opportunities for engagement that are spatial, tactile, and relational to cultivate dialogue—not only between people and landscape, but among the people themselves.

My design frequently begins with selecting found objects that carry symbolic or vernacular significance, often tied to the social, cultural, or ecological context of a site. I also draw from imaginative sources such as landscape imagery, fairy tales, films, and personal or collective anecdotes. Through formal and material experimentation—such as shifting scale, manipulating color, and reconfiguring composition—these objects are reimagined into familiar yet uncanny forms. The result is a hybrid language of design that straddles fiction and function, memory and materiality, the intimate and the infrastructural.