Mary Jhun is a fine art painter and muralist based in San Diego, California. Jhun specializes in Surrealism and is known for her main subject, The Girls, characters and beings that constantly carry Jhun’s work throughout the years. The Girls act as a vase to all her memories and the stories of others. A result of 20 years of obsession with these characters, The Girls have allowed her to cope with past traumatic experiences in order to heal and understand the current phases of her life. The Girls have been the main focus of her documentation of processing everyday experiences, past and present. Interlocking human psychology to the biology of plants, architecture, and anatomy, Jhun’s goal is to allow the viewer to feel understood, to question what they see, and to understand reality through a deeper lens outside of the norm and into a place beyond reality. The Girls represent an inner self, one that is culminated in many alternate versions of what is or can be. Most days, Jhun calls them The Girls, however, they represent more so a feeling, a timeframe, and a product of a certain reaction which can be both feminine and masculine. She refers to her work as “emotional self portraits of a day remembered”, in that she views the pieces as thumbprints of haunting memories that delve into the beauty of life, death, and the journey in between. Her art can be seen in homes and offices throughout the country, and Jhun’s public murals can be found throughout San Diego and a few in Northern California. After basing her studio in Barrio Logan for 10 years, she now practices out of Escondido.