In her multifaceted artistic language, Youjin Yi unites objective references and abstract, painterly structures. Her works depict landscape spaces occupied by persons, animals, objects or hybrids. Seemingly dematerialized they fuse with their environment, emerge or take shape.
The motifs want to challenge, want to be deciphered and yet often remain in the realm of fantasy. She combines lines and surfaces in the paintings; acrylic, oil, oil pastel, and graphite meet free background.

Youjin Yi sometimes paints and draws directly on canvas, but much more often on paper, which she works on lying on the floor. She then glues traditional Korean paper, worked in several layers, onto wood or canvas.