Kim’s notational system draws on the Fluxus score tradition, where instruction and image collapse into one another. But where Fluxus instructions are written to be performed by others, Kim’s system is inherently non-transferable to the viewer. Instead, her instructional renderings expose a choreography of mourning no one else can perform.

In her series A Precious Holding (Joys Gallery, 2025) and Mourning Notation 12 (on gestures of hope) (Zalucky Contemporary, 2024), the grid functions as a guiding infrastructure, operating as a rigid and instructional underdrawing laid beneath her organic marks of emotion.

Examining Kim’s practice in dialogue with theorists who examine the psychoanalytic and affective potential of the grid, this text will parse the internal pressures of externalizing mourning. Filling the rationalized structure with a language it cannot contain, Kim’s drawings become instructions for continuing relation, functioning as a blueprint not for resolving grief, but instead, for sustaining its affective breath.

The notational system, then, is not a code to be cracked. It is a score to be witnessed — a private choreography made visible through the artist’s insistence on structure as a vessel for what cannot otherwise be held.