SELECTED WRITING
Vision for the World of the Unseen
2012.4.30, Buam-dong, Seoul, Korea
For a long time, painting has served as an age-old medium with which artists express their feelings and creativity. Even though there are many varieties of genres in art today, painting has never ceased to exist as one of the most important tools to express human emotions in visual terms.
There is a compelling reason for the existence of painting as a visual instrument; it serves as a means to express things that cannot be said in words or letters but only through visual sensations. To me, painting is one of the primary means to engage my vision with the world of the unseen, the world of emotions. A painter can justify his vision by having the viewer encounter a world of forgotten sensation by presenting different ways of looking at the world through his paintings.
Jackson Pollock once said that artists express their aesthetic world through their paintings, “Every painter paints what he is”. In my paintings I try to reveal the intense but nevertheless temporal emotions which exist in my realm of subconscious in conjunction with the immense power of nature that always holds me with a sense of permanence. In that regard, spontaneity and immediacy, juxtaposed by an important role in yielding a painterly quality in my work.
We are surrounded by the temporal and the permanent. My attempt is to share a vision for everything that surrounds us, be it temporal or permanent; of things that are not seen…….
June, 2013