Artist Intention 

– Coexistence of nature and mankind.. Return to memories -

• The artist intended on expressing bits and pieces of his/her memories of lyrical landscapes, which resemble beautiful movie scenes, based on the artist’s childhood memories through surface paintings. Until now, the artist’s main work had focused on collage using solids (objets) on canvas paper using the topic of Korean beauty. 

• At the start of each early summer, deep in the mountains, when acacia flowers are in full bloom and mulberry trees are filled with mulberries, the artist’s mother would grow silkworms in a mud-walled room. The silkworm would struggle over an extensive period of time to produce thin and fine silk thread. Throughout the night, the sound of it crunching on mulberry leaves would resonate beautifully, perfectly resembling the sound of raindrops. 

• Nature and mankind.... The life of coexistence locks up and ties oneself in the realm of fate in which solitude and patience overlap to the extent that he or she is viewed with awe, similar to a monk practicing asceticism. The reuniting and parting of a relationship during the times.. The artist’s life, which speaks about longing, shares a thread of connection with the cocoon.

• During that beautiful summer, the artist deeply longed to express the lily-white cocoons as a topic of art. With the passage of time, the artist now desires to express his/her work in the elegant form of sculptures and paintings. The beautiful memories of nature and the artworks reborn with his/her artistic values now sing of the longing for n

Artwork Description – Formative language that shares surface and solid structures

• Until now, the artist had mainly worked on collage using form boards, expressing Moon Jars on canvas paper on the topic of Korean beauty. The artist’s recent works portrayed memories on longing for the disappearing nature, and his/her mother and hometown. 

• The artist used an actual cocoon as an objet to enhance the depth of the authenticity of the work. The collage work involved deep thinking into the type of the sculpture, with the form‘s repetitive composition aligning both horizontally and vertically, and the borrowing of a subtopic surrounding the frame’s exterior aimed to expand the spatial composition range of the surface through extension with a single color. ature and memories that continue to fade away.

• Such mixed usage of the topic and subtopic aimed to show order and stable differentiation, and the usage of ink work and a monochrome single color implies the meaning of a monk practicing asceticism while looking deep into the walls of self-control and introspection.

• Furthermore, the experimental attempt to unleash unrestricted freedom from form or art materials aimed to further inquire into the diversity of modern art.