You describe the Kingdom of Sally as something you’re discovering rather than inventing. When did a simple drawing start feeling like a place with a life of its own, and how does this idea come through in this chapter presented at GR Gallery?

When I was a child, I spent most of my time playing with dolls by myself.

I would line up the dolls I made myself on a desk and quietly play each character, moving the story forward. Every day, I created my own secret puppet theater. I did this almost every day until I was 18.

But at some point, I felt that if I continued playing like this, the real world might become boring to me. I was also starting to think about finding a job, so I buried the dolls in a nearby embankment and sealed them away.

When I was around 30, I started painting after visiting galleries in New York. As I continued painting, I remembered the doll stories I had sealed away long ago, and I began to want to continue them.

For me, it felt exactly like excavation.