Yoon Nam will create a show of paintings produced in the corner of the guest bedroom in her aging mom’s apartment in Korea. The paintings are generated from journal entries, verses, and essays written in Korea, which will be interspersed with paintings exploring themes of minutiae and intimacy and contemplating how material distance can season a person’s outlook on the world and inspire nostalgia—always central to her work. As the etymology of nostalgia (“nostos,” return, home + “algos,” pain) implies, nostalgia is bifurcated, both painfully meaningful and joyously inspiring. The word for nostalgia in Korean, 향수 (pronounced “hyangsu”), also means perfume. Longing is alluring, yet simultaneously nauseating and dispiriting (hence “home-sickness”), like the smell that keeps returning, hatching knots in one’s stomach—and aching for what’s outside one’s proximity. Nam has been traveling between the two homes, carrying paintings back to Atlanta in poster tubes. Her travel-sized (and travel-minded) paintings show that distance, either material or immaterial, can be broken down to carry less burden but more purpose. Neither diminished nor lost but transformed, they make up the journey. The works will be shown online on the artist’s website, in a printed, bound zine, and a possible physical show.