Artist Statement

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 These paintings are an all the time stories that human beings experience the boundary situation of prolongation (life) and stop (death) of life,  in a very neutral and observant way. The starting point of the work is a collection of symbolized fragments of the memory of life through the ceremonial action of 'dive' (falling off, standing & going down) between the perspective connection point of land (related) and sea (last destination).

His main tools are geometry. It is a thoroughly calculated composition in which the straight line with the intended direction, the dotted line of the existential suggestion, the vertical relationship (above &below), the diagonal line, and the visual vanishing point unfold in the neutral frame of 'square'. His intention was a simple geometrical composition of the representational reality, but it is a little uncomfortable to introduce many symbolic and metaphorical elements.

In each painting, a series of symbolic elements are used, and they continue to be appeared. These elements are as if they are hidden in a drawer and cannot be thrown away until the end, and also they are both regrets and restraints. However, in the neutral square frame, all symbolic elements are used only as a device for composition, and the result is nothing more or less than geometric construction that remains except for all elements’ stories.

Very contrasting colors were used, and the physical properties of the land (solid) and water (liquid) and the contrasting physical properties of 'diving' (weight) and 'floating (air) in the environment of gravity.