| 2018-08-14 | Birch... On the journey to the forest for 'healing' filled with the sublime of transcendence. |
| Birch... On the journey to the forest for 'healing' filled with the sublime of transcendence. ArtistJung si young An artist is always concerned about 'unmasking and expressing' during the life. I am attached to something that will intend to express truth through substantiality (content) beyond esthetics of form which offers values through beauty of shape and colors. It is the subject on 'the sublime,' which embraces me. Experiencing pleasure not out of simple beauty of visible objects but substantial being- the beauty of a being not determined by physical appearance but delight out of the experience of the transcendental world- This is the essence of the sublime. My work tells the narrative of the sublime through birch, the symbol of medium connecting between the heaven and human beings. The birch forest I approach... It is not simply a tree but a set of sacred and sublime beings just like a giant aura which reaches the hem not to be touched beyond any description through imitation. Birch is an axis to connect between the worlds of divinity and mankinds, and the route for vitality. John Carter Covell tells, through Cheonma-do (Painting of the Horse Flying over the Sky) in which saddle flap of birch was drawn, beyond time and space of a millenium, that the people of a nation were originated from horse-riding people who worshiped a birch as a sacred tree. The birch forest, 'If Cheonma (Horse flying over the sky) carries the soul of the dead over the sky,' is where its soul breathes. Also, it symbolizes the sacred object expressing holiness and sacred beings becoming the fundamental essence of life. The birch forest described in my work is to show the rearranged space of tree in the absence of complex outlines, and the decoration of the forest where white souls breathe, using the beauty of blank space, to a great extent. This is far from the description of an object and color of complex scene, and realistic and manifest formation. Here, the birch forest does not involve the concept of simply representative 'beauty' which can be represented on an ordinary plain level, but 'beauty of the sublime' which associates viewers of encounter with the spirits of a gigantic forest, since it was expressed through dipping and spreading of water color paintings and water, or brushing at least. Taking it into account, the birch forest pursues beings within sacred spectrums beyond scale and imagination that human beings can measure. As usual, today,I consider the scene in which a stream of white cotton cloth pieces toss, being left hung around a thick birch in the forest of Stanovoi along cold Baikal Lake, the origin of the people of a nation. I envision and dream that everyone will climb the birch with a ladder to commune with our spirits over the sky. I hope that everyone living in pain in the visible world all the time will enter the birch forest filled with the sublime of transcendence and experience his or her beings. Birch means, in other words, the forest for 'healing'. |
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