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Room size labyrinthine web of her hair and geometric composition with tens thousands of crystals are the works that brought fame to Ham Younjoo. These materials are not only Ham Younjoo’s basic formative material but also the materials often interpreted as feminine, fragile, and mundane material. The artist, however, pays attention to the physical tension that each material innately posses and the tension that are created when they were interacted with and reacted against the artist herself, and the materials to each other. Her works should be separated from the category of the works that art objects as a vessel to contain symbolism, metaphor, and concepts if we try to appreciate her art. For there were fragility it was possible to make tension of the delicate materials, alteration of their presence while the artist utilize repetition and shadows making them a unit of living being and one form.