A shadowed garden by a light,《dim. Garden》

 

 

A shadowed garden by a light, 《dim. Garden》

dim. Garden

29. Dec. 2011 - 26. Jan. 2012
DM Gallery

Written by Nayoung Hur (Art Critic)

"The walk slides toward the green door along the gray wall of a narrow and long corridor under a lowly placed roof. After passing by the dust flashing in between the several lost parts of the floor made by joining wood parts, long-closed metronome without sounds, a toy with bluish rusts in between its spring, and pinecone picked during a walk, the sight remains at a withered elm tree which would nod at just a slight hand touch."

- From artist’s note -

During a relatively long life, there are times when you just cannot fall in sleep due to worries.
With the moonlight, you walk without a destination and indexes as many as the lost streets in the mind. After the countless wanders, suddenly you come to recognize the dawn that unveils itself between the distant tall and short buildings. At the moment, you arrive at a green door, and through the slightly opened door, the shadow of the light emerges. It is as if it tells you to wake up and stop wandering.

 

Han Jin’s drawings express the instant moment, as if Monet depicted the instant moment of the sunrise. However, in her drawings there is another aspect. You can find it within a shadow, not within a light. While escaping the light, the endless movement of the fine pencil lines condenses together to create the shadow. It becomes a dry flower placed on a table, and also becomes the utensils piled up on a side of a kitchen. However, the shadow changes indefinitely.
It is because the light of the dawn which emerges through the dark disappears quickly and also because it is not known when the fine lines composing the unstable mass will disappear.
Also, to survive, the shadows change their own shapes, to indiscernible forms.

 

Although no one is awake at the time of dawn, the small movements make implicit sounds. They make the sounds by murmuring and also stopping it. The whisper is the sound of the leaves by the breeze of the dawn and also it is the sound of the drop of dew at the edge of a blade of grass. However, as the sunrises and as the shadow of the dawn disperses, the vibrant whispers are muted. Due to the waking sounds of the morning milk delivery’s bicycle, birds that awoke from sleep and people hurrying to their offices, the vibrant whispers slowly fade away.

 

The artist refers to the form the shadow in a dark as ‘diminuendo’, meaning ‘more softly’ in music. She anticipates that the small movements created by the fine pencil lines would stimulate our visual sight like a sound that decreases more sensitively than a crescendo.

 

It is now an indisputable fact that visual arts are not merely appreciated visually. Initially you consume it visually, but it is appreciated by means of ear and body through the movements of silent sounds and forms lying beneath it. We can hear the sounds and feel the dawn through the empty space without fine lines and also through thick darkness created by the constantly overlapped lines. So, how about seeing the image of the work by eyes and feel it once again through heart by closing the eyes? You would able to hear the sound of a grass insect moving along the shadow made by the light of the dawn.