The thing Painting

“The artist thinks our form is to keep walking through dark alleys, relying on dim light. The moment we reach the destination, we realize it was just a process, we get something, we lose something. On the road to a new goal, we move forward with both expectations and anxiety.” “As the familiar scenery of Daebudo Island disappeared and I found myself in an unfamiliar environment, I felt afraid. While walking carefully in fear, I found a road that was lit by a dim streetlight and hidden by trees. It was barely visible. It looked like an ‘Island’. I then thought that it looked like an ‘Island in an Island’, which made me smile slightly. I could finally find peace after I accepted it as an unknown known.” “That came to mind in a flash as it passed through the black sea. And soon I could feel it was something I was afraid of. Something that I couldn't clearly define, I named it an unprecedented meaning, a complex object of fear and curiosity at the same time, and maybe it was just my feel.” It is a midnight view of Daebudo Island, located in Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, expressed in Indian ink on Korean paper called ‘Jangji’. Dark and unfamiliar landscapes and dim lights that are isolated like islands appear as the main images. The painting is in scrolled. The size of the scroll is 75 W x 182.5 H x 2.5 D cm. (29.5" W x 72" H x 1" D in) and rolled scroll is 75 W x 4 H x 5 D cm. (29.5" W x 1.5" H x 2" D in)