Artist Statement

I work to create spatial depth and illusion on the plane by drawing repeated lines. The act of drawing endlessly repeatedly is done in the way of practice, dance, and meditation. I repeat the overlapping strokes by connecting spirals with drawing materials such as pencils and colored pencils along with oil or acrylic paints. I start by drawing thinly and softly, and continue to build up. In this way, as I repeat the overlapping method infinitely, a space as deep as the universe is created on the plane.

My repetitive actions have the meaning of meditative training. The reason for repeatedly drawing curves or drawing repeatedly for 100 days is for the discovery of new images and a spiritual leap beyond technological development. The spiral shown in the figure has the same meaning. Spiral motion looks like a repetitive circular motion, but at a new starting point it has the meaning of a dialectic that goes up one step. A cube appears frequently in my paintings. It sometimes takes the form of a self-portrait. However, the hexahedron represents a painting of the future that has not yet been revealed. It looks transparent, but you can't see what's inside. This is the future of my painting. It is my will to show what has not yet been shown.

A series of infinitely repeating actions takes place like meditation in the middle of the conscious and unconscious. The mind is awake even while immersed in drawing a line with a dance-like act. The position, rhythm, force, and speed of the line have sensitive standards that are set at every moment. While immersed in the senses, I search for the position and shape of the line in numerous probabilities according to purposeless purpose. I create infinite time and space like the universe, imagine swimming in it, and draw lines on the canvas in free play.

My play of imagining a greater time and space beyond the sublime of the unknown depths of the sea or huge and rugged mountains is a longing for freedom. Finite human beings experience the freedom of infinity through imagination. As I draw a line, I imagine myself flying to infinity as a boong bird appearing in Zhuangzi. In a place where there is no end of time and space, I soar thousands of feet on a single flap, swirls and flies freely. If I think of the world as finite, the space and time in which I can fly are also finite. If I can imagine infinity and express the infinite space in a painting, the audience in front of my painting will also be able to freely fly there with the artist.

The hidden and immanent images created by the intersection of lines become tens of thousands of shapes through the viewer's eyes and experiences and have multidimensional meanings, and my paintings expand their meaning and possibilities through the viewer. My paintings are not difficult abstractions. There is no right answer in abstraction. The viewer can imagine and give new meaning to the undecided image. It is the viewer who completes the painting. The imagination of many individuals who interpret and play on a subjective basis meet, and the painting takes on a multidimensional meaning and is only completed.