PINKPEAK's media artwork ‘Butterfly Dream (胡蝶夢) : Beyond the Boundary’ was selected as an Excellence Award winner in the general category of the 5th Dream Big Art Awards media art contest, hosted by DB Insurance and DB World.

The work draws on Zhuangzi's ‘Butterfly Dream’ and An Gyeon's painting ‘Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom Land’. It overlays drifting through the dreamlike paradise of the peach blossom land with how we drift today through virtual worlds designed by media algorithms, and asks visitors, who walk through a landscape painting guided by a butterfly, “Am I dreaming, or am I part of the dream?”

The frame of the piece comes from hwagak, a traditional Korean craft. Just as hwagak holds a world of five colors inside translucent ox horn, the digital screen was treated as a hwagak box, and the scenes unfolding inside it were staged as if looking into a piece of craftwork.

The visuals follow a central story of ‘the four seasons a butterfly feels as it drifts through a dream’. Rather than using AI output as it was, each result was refined to match the mood and texture of the whole space, so that the technology blends naturally into traditional beauty.

The sound follows the same four seasons. Instead of a conventional narrative arc, it unfolds the classical mood of hwagak and the Four Seasons and Eight Views paintings as the flow of the seasons, from the warmth of spring to the cold texture of winter, so that visitors feel as if they have become the butterfly walking through the scenery.

‘Butterfly Dream : Beyond the Boundary’ was exhibited at Seoul Gallery in Seoul City Hall in 2026.