My name is Dahie Song and I'm an artist. That's it! I have a selection of paintings that... I'm not selling them. They're my favorite works. And I just want to keep them because... They want to be together. They just needed to be made. I'm just a protector. I do rely a lot on the elements of nature. I would say until almost the end of last year, my work taught a lot to do with the self. I call every piece of self-portrait because I love it. I love myself and I can't take care of it. I'm birthing a child. But I've been moving towards ways of being together. The base painting, under-painting, would have been one, a single stroke. Sometimes it's actually four strokes and people think it's one. And I go in with a tiny, tiny brush to make it... give it life. And make it look organic and... don't lose any of the quality of the immediacy of a brush stroke. You have to think about what it is. The little part of it's soul that you have the privilege... that I have the privilege to fill. I have designed mechanisms. I'm carrying mechanisms. They're everywhere in my house that can install freesanding paintings. For installations, we're just to photograph them. I kind of have to sit for a while and think about the stroke. About painting with black is taking away the light. I like how calm about it. It's the biggest reason why. I like the idea of taking away the light. And it's to do with more of the philosophical. Like I want you to think about the piece. I want you to feel it and think and go deep within. So I don't want it to be something distracting. That's something you're so stimulated by. If I could choose my main form of art making or just form of existence, I would be a life painter. I feel alive. Like me becoming the painting. Like it's like feeling what it's like to be a painting. Like I've done varying degrees of it where it's lasted. I'm an hour to the longest I've done with like seven hours. And it's just like chance mode. Like that one hour and that seven hour all feels like five minutes. I'm still making a lot of digital work. It's really fun for me. I also like creating very like graphic. Inspired paintings where like I'll draw the image by hand. Edit it on Photoshop to make it like super crisp. And then like image trace it onto a canvas and just like paint the graphic lines. Like love doing like commercial work. Whether it be like photography or graphic design or some weird installation. Like I learned so much from it. Photographing them in nature like I started because they like being nature. So I'm bringing I feel a lot more life and a lot more. Like connectivity with arising in my work.