Jude Woo

Jude Woo is an artist who makes a living by selling emotions. He does not simply express feelings—he works within a reality where one can survive only by producing pain and wounds and turning them into products. Emotional fragments drawn from autobiographical experiences are shaped through his hands, transformed into drawings and stories, and eventually sold as material works. In the series 〈Jude Story〉, “Farmer Jude” cultivates emotions like crops. He places them into jars, turns them into jam, and sells them at the market. This figurative narrative reveals the paradoxical life of an artist who must develop emotions into tradable assets, not just leave them as traces of wounds. Woo’s work quietly yet sharply testifies to the way emotions are converted into tools for survival. Rather than merely displaying emotions, he exposes the reality of creative labor within an inevitable structure that demands the manufacturing of feeling.