Letter from Waves (to.2125) is a sound and photography installation that asks: “Can the sounds of today remain 100 years from now?”

The work brings together field recordings, voices, photographs, and newly composed sound. A total of 102 participants from Korea and abroad recorded the sounds around them and their own voices, creating personal records of the places and moments they were living in. These recordings were then developed into original compositions and brought together with the photographs as a collective record of the present.

The installation was presented at Jeju National Museum from August 5 to 23, 2026. Visitors moved through the exhibition and activated cassette-shaped sound devices to hear individual sound fragments, experiencing places, memories, and voices within one shared space.

Concept & Direction: Ina Lee | Composition: Ina Lee | Photography: Mobe Ban, Ina Lee

In Korean, BARAM (바람) means both wind and wish. The exhibition combines photographs, environmental recordings, and wordless humming collected across East Asia.

Forests, water, city streets, and coastlines appear in the photographs, while environmental recordings and humming bring the sounds of these places into the gallery. An ambient composition moves throughout the space, connecting the images and sounds.

Presented at M50 Creative Park, Shanghai, from July 15 to 29, 2026, BARAM considers how wind carries what cannot be seen, including passing sensations, distant wishes, and what remains after a moment has passed.

Concept & Direction: Ina Lee | Sound Design & Photography: Ina Lee | Collaboration: Koji Morishita, Wang Xin

Time of a Drop was developed during a month-long residency in Zhujiajiao, Shanghai, in July 2026. The photographs were created through ongoing observation of Zhujiajiao’s waterways, reflections, light, and movement.

The sound work was developed as a composition and sound design in response to these images. Melodic elements and environmental recordings were shaped together to create a sonic layer that moves with the mood, rhythm, and visual flow of the photographs.

The work begins with a question: When a drop of water becomes part of a larger body of water, does it feel suffocated or relieved? Time of a Drop focuses on the moment between remaining separate and becoming part of something larger, where a sense of suffocation and relief can coexist.

Sound Design & Photography: Ina Lee

Waterscape brings together photography and sound recordings of water from Jeju and Shanghai. The photographs focus on reflections, light, leaves, stones, and the surface of water, showing what appears above and beneath it at the same time. The sound work is based on recordings of waves from Jeju and rivers from Shanghai, together with animal sounds from Africa shared through a sound exchange with a Japanese artist. These materials were developed into a composition that connects distant places through one continuous flow.

Presented in Nature and Divinity, a UNESCO project and special exhibition of the 64th Tamna Culture Festival in Jeju in 2025, Waterscape looks at how water moves through landscapes and links places that are geographically apart.

Composition & Photography: Ina Lee

Carried by Our Wind is a music film created in remembrance of the victims of the Jeju April 3 Incident, carrying a quiet message of comfort and healing.

I composed, performed, and produced the music in 2020, and the work was later developed into a short film in 2021 in collaboration with artists from Jeju and Daejeon.

Through contemporary dance and the blooming of camellia flowers, the work reflects on memory, loss, and the hope for peace.

The wind becomes a thread between past and present, carrying what remains forward.

Music composed by Ina Lee

This piece was created around the theme of healing through nature. It begins with the sound of rain falling in a forest in Jeju, layered with birdsong, flute, and piano to evoke harmony between nature and humanity.

The flute was recorded live in the forest, enhancing the immersive soundscape and capturing the breath of nature as it truly is.

The final composition delicately paints the atmosphere of Jeju’s rainy forest, offering a sense of calm and quiet purification.

Concept & Direction: Ina Lee | Composition: Ina Lee

The sea of Jeju feels like an instrument, sometimes bold and sometimes gentle. Since 2021, I have been photographing its shifting light and recording its sounds to create 12 music pieces.

This photo book pairs each image with its own music and coastal soundscape, accessible via QR code. It offers a visual and sonic journey through the sea, from sunrise to sunset.

Concept & Direction: Ina Lee | Composition & Photography: Ina Lee

Zero(0) is a number that holds both nothingness and infinity. Like islands drifting on the sea, our inner landscapes appear and vanish with the movement of the waves.

Waves shaped by circumstances or stirred by emotion can erase familiar islands or reveal unexpected ones. At times, only gentle ripples remain, and everything rests in stillness.

The presence of waves and islands within us is a sign that life continues to flow.

This piece expresses that inner ocean through the sounds of cello, piano, and the sea.

Concept & Direction: Ina Lee | Composition: Ina Lee