The introduction of gold into Park's recent works is therefore far from a superficial stylistic shift or a response to popular trends. By transforming objects themselves into metallic gold or crowning his signature teddy bear motif with a golden crown, Park questions how contemporary desires, anxieties, and notions of value are being reformulated. The crown, in particular, signifies not simply power or wealth, but rather the illusion of value and the longing for stability that humanity refuses to relinquish in an uncertain age. In collision with the matte surfaces of black-and-white patterns, the metallic gold generates sharp visual tension, heightening the relationship between material and value, sensation and desire. Here, gold ceases to be decorative and instead becomes a symbolic color in which the unconscious of the era is condensed.