New York-based artist Sky Kim (b. Seoul, South Korea) is known for her meticulously patterned, incantatory watercolors. Her paintings operate as optical illusions inviting the viewer into a meditative state of increased self-awareness and tranquility. Kim creates work from a place of stillness with meditation as her guide. “I have to raise my vibrations to the highest level,” she says of her process. “I put myself in that state so that I am very close to my highest self.” From this place, she creates a complexity of repetitive patterns that appear to undulate and pulse if the viewer stares at them long enough. In her words, “a lot of my viewers experience some kind of energy coming from the center of my work. They feel vibrations.”