Hope – Paper Airplane Shikishi Artwork

Hope is an original artwork by South Korean artist Kwon YoungJin, created with  acrylgouache and gesso on a Japanese shikishi art board. A pale hand gently holds a folded paper airplane against a clear blue background, capturing the fragile moment before release.
 
The image suggests both childhood memory and emotional transition. The paper airplane is light and simple, yet it carries a powerful sense of expectation: the wish to let something go, and the hope that it may continue its path.