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Butterflies

June Redthread Kim

Butterflies

AI
Nature
Fantasy
Meditative

Four Seasons of Redthread Vision gives visible form to the hidden structures of connection that shape human life and nature.

Since 2010, Korean American artist June Redthread Kim has mapped human networks into intricate blueprints, transforming invisible relationships into sculptures and installations woven from red thread. Rooted in East Asian traditions of invisible human bonds, her practice has evolved into a living system across materials and technologies.

Using an AI model trained on her original artistic archive, Kim extends this sculptural language into imagined installations within nature.

In Spring, a warm red woven sculpture inhabits the landscape. Its threads move with the wind, transform into flowers and butterflies, and cradle dandelion seeds as though breathing with the surrounding life. These transformations make visible the invisible relationships between humans, nature, and living organisms.

Spring is not merely a beginning, but one pattern within nature's continuous cycle, part of a living system shaped by interdependent relationships.

What other invisible patterns might the changing seasons reveal?

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June Redthread Kim

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June Redthread Kim is an artist and director whose work traces the invisible structures that connect human relationships, nature and technology. For more than 15 years, she has developed Redthread, an evolving body of work devoted to revealing the hidden structures of connection that shape our lives. It began in 2010 with social media data-based sculptures and has since expanded across installation, moving image, immersive and spatial environments, and AI systems trained on her own artistic archive, all driven by a single ongoing inquiry. Redthread has become the creative DNA of her practice, a visual language linking physical works, immersive environments and cinematic worlds across space and time. She is also the founder of 528 Lab, a creative studio focused on cinematic storytelling and immersive experiences.

Her work has been presented internationally at Art Basel Miami, Saatchi Gallery, Outernet London and Frieze Seoul. In 2025, 4 Seasons of Redthread Vision was officially selected for the Paris AI Action Summit and exhibited at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, France’s national museum of art and technology, in Paris. Her work is also part of the permanent collection of the Amorepacific Museum of Art in Seoul.

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