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Farm House in North Korea Painting

Roger Shepherd

South Korea

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 20.9 W x 17.7 H x 0.8 D in

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The countryside of North Korea is something from the recent past. They live tough there. But they are not without the basics. They know how to produce food because they have been doing that for centuries. So I find the scene very pastoral. Yes, they are without the modern-day amenities we have, but they are as a people not without love and companionship for each other as a community, because that is all they really have. There are no distractions pulling them away from each other. Notes from October 2011: We drove up the road to Bukdae-bong, arriving at a camp. A couple of soldiers came out and showed us a site containing relics from Korea’s struggle against the Japanese. During the occupation of the Korean peninsula, factions of partisan fighters hid in camps next to springs in the mountains. Most of the bases were in the remoter northern regions of the peninsula around Paektu-san. This site on the sides of Bukdae-bong was a southern arm of the resistance. Low roofs protected the remnants of tools, weapons, clothing, and other items that had been used by the men and women that once hid here. The Baekdu Daegan and its connecting ridges had been used by the partisans as ridge pathways to wrench independence back from the Japanese. Traveling Korea’s mountains is as much about the social experiences and friendships made, and the undulating beauty that comes with it. For me it has also been about learning of Korea’s past, recent and ancient. 북대봉으로 가는 산길을 차로 올라 숙영지에 도착했다. 병사 두 명이 나와서 항일투쟁 유물을 보존하고 있는 장소를 보여줬다. 일본 강점기 동안 빨치산들은 산속 샘 옆에 자리 잡은 여러 밀영에 은신했다. 대부분 거점은 백두산을 중심으로 한반도 북부지역 오지에 있었으나 북대봉 밀영은 항일운동의 최남단 거점 중 한 곳이었다고 한다. 낮으막한 지붕을 씌우고 한때 이곳에 은신하던 남녀 빨치산들이 쓰던 도구, 무기, 피복을 비롯한 여러 유품을 보호하고 있었다.

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:

Oil on Canvas

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

20.9 W x 17.7 H x 0.8 D in

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Roger Shepherd is a New Zealander based in Korea. He works full-time as an individual freelancer, specializing in Korean Mountain Culture from North & South Korea. His main mediums are photography and photo-art book publishing, but is now branching into painting as his new medium of expression. “Covid-19 suddenly provided me with a hole to fill. So I decided to use the spare time to fulfil a promise to my high school art teacher that I would one day draw again.” Roger is the first person to have explored the Baekdu-daegan (a 1400km mountain spine of the Korean peninsula) in North Korea over several visits and the first foreigner to have walked and documented the Baekdu-daegan in South Korea. He has held several photo exhibitions throughout South Korea, as well as in Pyongyang, Kyoto and New Zealand. His exhibitions and photo art books of the Baekdu-daegan symbolize Korea as one mountain and one people. “I am a supporter of self-determination for the Korean people. Through arts, I aim to create a paradigm for the peaceful coexistence of North and South Korea. I seek commonalities rather than differences." Roger also runs a hiking company called Hike Korea, which has helped him discover most corners of the Korean peninsula. For the past ten years, he has been guiding foreign visitors to South Korea on their mountain hikes here, including a backpacking adventure in North Korea. “These paintings are my first pieces. I decided to start with the Baekdu-daegan mountains of North Korea as they are my normal photo-subject material. I know them. Plus, no one has ever painted some of these rare unvisited peaks before. One day in the future when all Koreans are free to travel over their land, they will want to go north and south and see these peaks and places in real life. I hope that is in my lifetime. As my vision and skill for painting (hopefully) increases, I am not sure in which direction my paintings on Korea will go, but I suspect they will leave the hills and go into the town centres and start to provoke there.” 로저 셰퍼드는 남한과 북한의 산(山) 문화를 글과 이미지에 담는 화가요 사진가이자 저술가로서, 여러 번의 방문을 통해 북한 지역의 백두대간을 탐사한 최초의 인물이며 산행을 통해 백두대간을 사진과 저서와 미술작품들로 기록한 최초의 외국인이다. 그는 평양, 쿄토, 뉴질랜드를 포함, 코리아의 전역에서 남북한에 걸친 백두대간의 산들을 하나의 산, 하나의 민족으로 상징하여 보여주는 사진전을 여러 차례 열었다. 저는 한민족의 민족자결 원칙을 지지하며, 미술작품과 행동주의적 활동을 통해 남한과 북한의 평화공존을 위한 하나의 패러다임을 창조해내는 작업을 하고 있습니다. 저는 산과 미술과 문화를 한 무대 위에 올림으로써 거주하는 지역과는 상관없이 맥맥이 흐르고 있는 한민족의 동질성을 부각시키고자 합니다.

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