SIjae Byun is a multi-media artist with a current focus on layered silk paintings using ink, acrylic, pigment, and oil. Her main theme centers around different relationships that exist in the world. That could be human interaction with one another, with nature, or nature on its own. The relationships people have with objects and their surroundings interest her in particular. She explores these ideas by combining different ideas and elements together. Many of her recent works combine nature and architecture to show two potentially opposing elements coming together in a harmonious result.