Kim’s practice is deeply rooted in personal emotion, often exploring themes of anxiety, regret, and irony through strange-but-cute visual arrangements. In Cat Moth, she continues to animate the inanimate, giving life and psychological weight to symbolic creatures. She merges the ordinary with the absurd to create a whimsical yet unsettling hybrid creature: part cat, part moth, suspended in a moment that feels as much like a memory as a dream. Rendered in her signature style, a blend of fine detail and childlike linework, the painting is both humorous and quietly disorienting. The titular figure is at once familiar and strange, evoking softness and curiosity while suggesting something unfamiliar fluttering just beneath the surface.

The moth, often associated with fragility, nighttime, and transformation, fuses here with Kim’s recurring black cat motif, an avatar of mischief, intuition, and the surreal. This unexpected pairing generates emotional ambiguity.