Astringency Drawing

Capturing strong images with very simple ingredients. That's what I wish in my pieces. I search images from a surface of paper or of canvas and draw them out usually with no plans. So it is more like exploring and finding perfect words to say out from my surroundings with uncertain former memories and unarticulated thoughts on them. And I greedy myself do often premise extortionate desire in this kind of small expeditions to create images in perfection or ideal harmony, usually which are hard to be gotten in my real world. Ink pen and oil pastel on paper, both have been simple very methods for me in my artistic practices, and which have ever been my favorites since when I was an age being able to grab those in a hand- or hands sometimes. grin. I'd picked up again my childhood cray-pas in 2003 and started to use it seriously as an art supply, and that's when I'd felt a bit tired of being in art critics, and all the plans and subtle meanings of art works, but wanted to enjoy and show them in its simple beauty. Plus, there are always images around me shouting at me to make them out. I'd simply started drawing with no plans and it was fun like finding jewels. This childlike and harmless material led me again into creative woods of free and fantastic images. I'd made several etching printings in the right year before, so I'd liked to put more on it using the needle like scratch style when I finished my first color cray-pas drawing, hoping it would be looked like Jagaejang, the Korean old fashioned cabinet inlaid with mother-of-pearl from seashells and lacquer on wood. But after 4 to 5 these scratch works. I found I need to separate this scratch into color and line drawings. Because I didn't put plans so sometimes there was no fine connection between the background color and line drawings on top. Plus, there was a lot loss in color drawing parts at the final image and that was a huge loss of time. I'd wanted to spread more images in any forms as much as I can. And this simple exploring is what I most love to do in art field with any materials as I could reach. Since I'd been living alone in Seoul, being departed from loving things and people, and been making money for continuing life in the art field, the artistic practices have been the only consolation to me. My easiest responses onto paintings at first are disgust, depression and violence though, at some point I've learnt that I don't want to put them in my pieces. Because whenever I came back after fighting a war-ish day or night, the sky was still always incredible as it is, a keenly blowing beautiful wind was there among the breathless relationship with strangers, and diligent ants were there on my lazy morning floor to search crumbs I left last night. All those were just so as they are, and there was no hidden intension but only honesty and pureness of nature. It seemed beautiful to me. Astringency that I felt, that all of a sudden the world and images flood-likely downpoured over me and made me feel dried and so tightened out at first, but after some prolonged period of time, like persimmon or wine gives me, they gave me rapture of happiness and ecstasy. I wanted to show what I saw. Trying not to lose myself but embracing the not-knowing-well situations which often have conflicting desires from each other, I wanted to start to put my struggles in simple beauty into my work.

Drawing:oil pastel on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:25.4 W x 15.4 H x 0 D in

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