Works IV 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.

Drawing:Charcoal on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:51.3 W x 63.9 H x 1.2 D in

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