4/6/2025
Inspired by classics, I envision a new world.
In the form of a picture, in the form of a poem.
Drawing a picture is
Drawing the visible and invisible world both figuratively and non-figuratively. Configuration leaves meaning as it is, and non-figuration approaches as an image of invisible metaphysics, providing endless inspiration for abstraction and giving depth to the work. I have always believed that by appropriately harmonizing and mixing the areas of the visible and invisible worlds, I fill the infinite blank abstract world with philosophy and provide deep emotion and inspiration to the viewer.
When people say that it is a painting that does not exist in the world or that it is a painting they have never seen before, I feel joy and empathy in my own way, and I long for and pursue even more passion for my work.
The Adam and Eve series with the theme of Original Sin depicts the sky, earth, sun, moonlight, and starlight of Paradise and Paradise Lost.
Sometimes he depicts portraits of Adam and Eve, who were wrathful and abandoned by God, and sometimes portraits of Adam and Eve blessed with God's wondrous eyes, while also depicting scenes like Munch's sunset hanging on a high-voltage line in downtown LA. . Thinking of the downtown market scene and New York's Stock Market... Also, believing that what is most Korean is the most global, I drew the Hahoe mask made by Andong people in LA, and worked on a breastplate with shamanism and totemism.
While listening to Schubert's Winter Travels, I drink a cup of warm powdered milk with an apple seed every morning, every morning. The view of the mountain hill seen from Goleman's cold fireplace is like a legend that remains along the shadow of Goleman's mountain, and on moonlit nights, a large deer stepping down on the remaining snow will bring warm news of spring to LA... It's like a villa in an arboretum. Moonlight, like a lantern, comes to my studio, and a magpie chatters in the dense pine field in the front yard from early in the morning, wondering if guests will come to visit. Picasso would draw a picture that resembles a genius like a child, draw a concept, tear it up several times, hesitate, and then draw Guernica as if it had occurred to him.
Just as Tchaikovsky's lake becomes the flowing tears of black swans, waiting for white swans...
2011. On a day in November