Breathing Flower4-3 Drawing

My work is to express mediums which evoke strange and different feelings based on my art form. Anxiety in my childhood made me cast a doubt on my identity, which turned into a motive to work. Pressing questions about who I am and what I want made me take a leave of absence from my university, and then I went and lived in Japan for two years as a stranger, which raised more doubts. 숨 꽃(breathing flowers) is an eruption of an inherent desire and an ambivalent state of mind for objects motivated by the doubts. By using charcoal which is suitable materials to catch momentary affect, repeatable drawing throws a sidelight on the inside to feel ambivalent about revealing and hiding my mind. As it looks as if hanji, traditional Korean paper handmade from mulberry trees, and glue vitalize repeated but different drawing lines in my working process, I call the work ‘숨 꽃 (breathing flowers)’. Any emotion making me give vent to bitter feeling in my mind created an illusion that I faced unfamiliar ego through an image exposed by chance. I had an experience to release the deeper feelings through the situation, and had a desire to show my emotional lines gradually and concretely. Meanwhile, a diversity of mediums I meet in my daily life aroused my mental images by which I realized it was based on 숨 꽃(breathing flowers). While I express the mediums in daily life to arouse a different feeling, raise a question about existence. I felt that lived past over again and it seemed all a lie, which makes me in present be a stranger and in past be unfamiliar. It makes me find the different inside and divide myself into two parts. A conflict between my present and past mixed in a space made me experience a kind of déjà vu. In front of my studio which I go to almost every day, I remembered that I couldn’t come into my house holding a door handle for a long time, and I felt that I come into a film set in a tragic movie at the moment that I opened the door. In addition, a sense of stability which is the way to come back to my house at 5:30, and a sense of tension conflicting the feeling, meet each other at any point where there is a hidden feeling in my childhood. I would like to forget any feeling left for things I couldn’t solve, but a fear of losing it is on the depth of my mind like a love-hate relationship. These mediums for the expressions need an objective point of view about unsolved things in my mind at the same time as there is awareness not to miss a connecting line with things disappearing in my mind. That is to disprove my desire to recover my relationship. This draws double consciousness for incomplete, inessential but distinct emotion from the past to creates an air of vague anxiety. My work is that former works go the base of following works, and it’s also to make a record of emotions derived from consciousness that I don’t want to lose a connection with things fading away in my mind, and from any point I can’t deny.

Drawing:Charcoal on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:58.9 W x 84.6 H x 0 D in

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