You Can’t Go Home Again is a series of plaster model works that explore the unsettling realization that one can never return to a place exactly as it was, especially when that place once felt like home.
The series reflects on the impermanence of familiar spaces and the emotional dissonance that occurs when memory collides with change. Over time, places evolve, disappear, or are reimagined entirely, leaving behind only fragments we carry with us.
The piece What’s Done Is Done was directly inspired by artist Kim Haesook’s recollection of her childhood village being displaced to make way for the construction of Daecheong Lake. Her story echoes a broader theme, how the landscapes of our past, both physical and emotional, are often reshaped by forces beyond our control.
Through these quiet, fragile forms, You Can’t Go Home Again reflects on personal loss, collective memory, and the irreversible nature of change.
Suné Horn 