Encounter

Encounter depicts two children — a girl and a boy — kneeling together at the base of an immense sunflower, their hands reaching toward its roots. Above them, the flower's eye gazes down with the calm authority of something ancient and knowing. It is an image of discovery, of two people meeting in a world that is new to them, finding their footing together at the base of something far larger than themselves.

For Yosan, this painting carries the story of his own arrival — of two people facing an unknown country side by side, hands in the soil of a new beginning. The children are not afraid. They are curious, focused, and together — which is everything you need when the world is large and unfamiliar.

The sunflower, towering above them, represents both the beauty and the scale of what awaits. Its eye does not judge — it witnesses. Encounter is a painting about the courage it takes to meet a new life with open hands, and the strength that comes from not facing it alone.