Kyung-Me captivates viewers with scenes of elaborate interior architecture rendered in a dense net of crosshatches. The eight gothic pen-and-charcoal works in Kyung-Me’s most recent suite of works, Sister (2022), exhibited at New York’s Bureau gallery, feature two con ned worlds—the monastery of a nun and the okiya (lodging house) of a geisha. With one-point perspective, each 1.2-meter- long work meticulously illustrates the isolated inner worlds of these groups of women with strict compositional symmetry and architectural framing. Such rigidity hints at the constraints of these women’s lives, at the heart of which lies obsessive perfection. The countless repetition of Kyung-Me’s marks and the melancholic shades of charcoal on the surface evoke the strictures of living in such confined quarters.