Welcome to "My Fairy Oracle"

"My Fairy Oracle" is an interactive media art project set in a fictional kingdom inhabited by fairies. Viewers can visit the fairy kingdom from the human world and experience automated fortune-telling by the fairies. The fortune-telling uses original fairy oracle cards drawn in pastels by the artist himself, and all the illustrations and paintings that appear on the site are also hand-drawn works.
While this project is operated using digital technology, it doesn't prioritize efficiency or immediacy; instead, it aims to deliver the unique nuances, warmth, and analog feel of hand-drawn art to users. Furthermore, the fairy kingdom has its own unique values ​​and rules, and the common sense, status, and titles of human society do not apply. Humans are guests of the kingdom, but not the center of attention, and may even be sent away depending on the mood and judgment of the fairies. The absurd process of this journey, where efficient travel is not permitted, is also an important experience in this work. In the future, there are plans to offer a paid appraisal service where letters from fairies will be delivered by mail.
The time spent waiting for the results, opening the envelope, and reading while touching the paper are all positioned as part of the experience. Beyond fortune-telling, the work creates a space for viewers to re-examine their own lives from different perspectives through externalization workshops where worries and suffering are entrusted to fairies, and narrative content where one's own experiences transform into something else.The Fairy Kingdom is a fictional nation with a culture that doesn't easily judge people's hearts or futures. By encountering its values, visitors gain an experience that relativizes the evaluations and common sense taken for granted in human society, and allows them to imagine alternative possibilities.

Project Statement

For a long time, I have felt a profound sense of dissonance toward the words and actions directed at those who are suffering—gestures from around them that presume to understand everything, spoken in the illusion of having "fully comprehended" their pain. From the moment we are born, we are placed into institutions of learning called schools, where our abilities are measured strictly by academic grades. Later, when we enter the workforce, our human worth is dictated by titles and productivity. Within these confined worlds—whether it be school, home, local communities, workplaces, or social media—individuals occasionally find themselves pushed to a dead end, falling into despair. To those who have become mentally exhausted, words of goodwill such as "I hope you get well soon" are frequently directed; yet, in that very process, the individual's own flow of time and unique pain are often left abandoned and left behind. In its truest essence, the mind is something that can never be quantified. No one, not even the individuals themselves, can know whether their inherent emotional fluctuations or personalities will remain unchanged forever, how their ways of thinking might shift, or whether they possess hidden talents, qualities, and abilities that might shine if polished. No one can foresee how experiences and suffering that appear entirely meaningless right now will transform into new forms later in life. The "Fairy Kingdom" was conceived and created as a fictional state specifically to accept such "unknowability" and "indeterminacy." This nation holds a history of near-extinction—a consequence of once overemphasizing efficiency and quantified abilities, believing that even the mind could be managed. In the present era, born from the memory of that failure, the fairies have learned that the heart and the future can never be controlled. Within this project, divination is not a tool to dictate the future with certainty. Nor is the journey into the Fairy Kingdom a mere act of escapism. Through the experiences of divination, journeys, narratives, and interactive workshops, what the visitors encounter is an entirely alternative set of values, detached from human society. In this realm, academic grades and social titles hold no absolute power. An individual's capabilities are viewed as something inherently mysterious, where no one knows when, where, or what kind of potential will burst into bloom. Therefore, the person's own will and intent at any given moment are prioritized above all else. Suffering and sorrow are not treated as problems that must be solved immediately; instead, visitors are permitted to temporarily entrust these hardships to the kingdom, allowing time to pass and waiting for a natural transformation to occur. My intention through this artwork is not to provide definitive answers. Rather, I wish to reclaim the liberating sensation that "it is entirely okay not to know." We can never fully comprehend the mind of another. We can never accurately predict the future. Yet, even so, human beings can endure and live on. The Fairy Kingdom is a nation that refuses to eliminate uncertainty; instead, it seeks to discover profound possibilities within that very unpredictability. It is my sincere hope that this journey into the fictional state will offer visitors an opportunity to re-examine their current values from a slight.