Hongil aims to deliver the feeling of isolation, and loss of identity in the ambiguity of memory that he senses in digital culture. In his practice, the composition of space shows the metaphor for the uncertainty of memory caused by the digital age. He implicates the feeling of the fragmented trace of images in mental space with flat and ambiguous geometric shapes.

For him, digital information in the mentality is no longer of the present or future but an image of the incomplete past tense without any clear interpretation of our thoughts. He transfers his digitalised collage to a nostalgic painting style on canvas using watercolour effect and distorted feeling with oil paint to make it closer to the form of the aged image he senses in his mentality. To create an image of such uncertainty, he experiments with the colour of a painting by following the marks it appeals to naturally, resembling the impression of digitalised colour.

Otherwise, he follows an intermedia process of evolving ideas through digital and analogue mediums. From the diverse ideas he initially collects from the diary as a digitalised collage, he intensifies them in his written poems or short stories through imagination to empathise with the character’s specific situation in the story when choosing images for the paintings.