Books & Publications
Artist’s books, essays, collaborative publications, and contributions to literary and art journals.
Titles are presented in their original Korean alongside English publication types; “Island, Alone” is an English rendering.
Essay collection / Author
The sea becomes both an endless horizon and a space in which time passes through a life. These essays find courage and quiet consolation in its enduring vitality.
2022 / Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation first artistic creation support. 2023 / Youngpoong Bookstore × Indiepub independent publishing selection.
Interdisciplinary anthology / Contributing writer
An interdisciplinary project led by artist Jeram, taking its title from a reversal of Doris Lessing’s To Room Nineteen. Deu-meu’s contribution asks what a safe space can mean for women.
Published by Wisdom House, 2023. 2022 / Arts Council Korea interdisciplinary project.
Artist’s book / Author
Fragments of Jeju’s wind, sunlight, and inner life take shape in hanji, a triangular structure, and scrolls.
2024 / B-PLATFORM LAB creative R&D support. 2024 / Fujifilm BI special award.
Interview collection & workbook / Editor and workbook contributor
A collection of interviews about cancer survivors’ return to social and working life. Deu-meu helped compile the interviews and develop workbook questions, offering practical hope grounded in lived experience.
2024 / Samsung Medical Center × Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance project.
Annual literary journal / Contributing writer
Contributions span short fiction, essays, and photo essays, from the inaugural issue onward.
Selected contributions 2021–2024.
Essay anthology / Contributing writer
An anthology of stories from the COVID-19 era. In Code Name: Blue–, Deu-meu invites a slower attention to nature that often passes unnoticed in everyday life.
2021 / Gyeonggi Content Agency Hidden Writer selection.
Art magazine / Contributing artist and writer
Creative responses to the magazine’s monthly themes.
Contributions beginning March 2025.
Literary magazine / Contributing writer, 2021–2023
Contributions from issue 10 to issue 41, with essays selected as Essay of the Month in issues 10 and 21.
Collaborative essay collection / Contributing writer
Eighteen contributors and the bookseller of Neoui Jakeopsil reflect on imagined funerals and obituaries, considering how thoughts of death can sharpen an appreciation of life.