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2021 ∵ An Artwork’s Beginning and End I seem to receive more and more questions about the beginnings and ends of my artworks. I still have been unable to find a satisfying answer to this question, and I am unsure if I was able to prepare one this time either. For me, a work does not begin the moment I set up the canvas or pull out a piece of paper. Every moment I am taking things in and storing them ..
2018 The trace left after a big loss cannot be easily replaced with something else. A painting is an active process and behavior of respecting the remembered emotions, thereby engraving them. This process is something that cannot be put into a concrete noun. So, I prefer to express it as 'something that coherently condenses internally, eventually firmly settling in its place.' This expression illustr..
2016 For me, sensing the reality and continuing the memories are akin to recognizing the sounds. The objects subjected to visualization that are beyond the boundaries of sounds are scattered by leaving vague silhouettes behind or are rather being grouped into similar images. Thus, to see something is like reacting to the sounds embedded in the object even before seeing the visual image. This is where..
2015 The reality recedes two verses behind. The search for the two verses that flew behind at a moment when it was nearly offbeat, recalls the unconsciously remembered landscape. The similarity of the landscapes is that although the very object that directly influenced them for a prolonged period of time had already dissipated, they still embody the ‘aural texture’, which is the condensation of the r..
2014 I focus more on the flow felt by the movements of the observed subject rather than the original forms or the location of the subject. The empathy gets more profound when I confront a landscape that is on verge of life and death, barely allowing itself to bloom and fall off. Even the quiet grazing sounds, small movements of the landscape make me to want to listen more of the feeling of the landsc..
2013 There, wind blows in the late autumn. I open my eyes before the complete surrender of the grasses, and the onset of sleep of every living thing. With the hope of blooming again, I push forward every day toward the miracle of being able to live again. The life has stopped with the start of a new millennium. The soul of the paused life rubbed its body against the landscape. Slowly and slowly, the ..
2012 Wall drawing is to express the memory and imagination driven from the already existing traces of the wall. The drawing would not be drawn if it was not the place. The construction process of the wall makes physical trace of screw spike and pit etc. Along with the traces, the long remaining paint wear off of the wall are starting points for imagination. Similar to the saying 'Imagination belies o..