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Playground – Christine R. Choi

$600.00

Playground layers a childhood photo of me hanging from the monkey bars with a present-day selfie taken while snowboarding. The playground was where I first tested my own bravery—small risks that felt enormous at the time. Overlaying that early courage with the adult version of me chasing freedom on a mountain asks me to slow down and notice the through-line. This piece becomes an invitation to pause and acknowledge the ways bravery grows but never truly leaves us.

4" x 6"
Photography
2025

Playground layers a childhood photo of me hanging from the monkey bars with a present-day selfie taken while snowboarding. The playground was where I first tested my own bravery—small risks that felt enormous at the time. Overlaying that early courage with the adult version of me chasing freedom on a mountain asks me to slow down and notice the through-line. This piece becomes an invitation to pause and acknowledge the ways bravery grows but never truly leaves us.

4" x 6"
Photography
2025

Kitchen – Christine R. Choi
Kitchen – Christine R. Choi
$600.00
Staircase – Christine R. Choi
Staircase – Christine R. Choi
$600.00

Christine R. Choi – Photographer

Christine R. Choi is a photographer based in Apex, North Carolina. By day she shapes products and systems in the corporate world; by night, her creative brain steps forward, chasing moments of contrast, stillness, and emotional texture.

ARTIST STATEMENT

For Deep Rest, I pair childhood portraits—taken in familiar places like playgrounds, kitchen counters, and living rooms—with recent selfies of myself. Placing these images side by side highlights the quiet continuity of how we see ourselves, shaped by the everyday spaces that held us then and still influence us now.

The juxtapositions act as a call for pause: an invitation to slow down long enough to notice the parts of ourselves that persist beneath the noise of daily life. They’re small reminders that peace isn’t always found in stillness, but in seeing ourselves with a little more honesty and a little less urgency.

Through these pieces, I’m searching for moments where past and present meet without needing to resolve anything—just long enough to breathe.

@crchoi