Today, the development of science and technology has brought abundance and convenience to people, but the phenomenon of emphasizing only practicality and efficiency has derived various problems. This is also evident in terms of places, where historica...
Today, the development of science and technology has brought abundance and convenience to people, but the phenomenon of emphasizing only practicality and efficiency has derived various problems. This is also evident in terms of places, where historically important places are destroyed due to urban redevelopment and indiscriminate site demolition, and the identity of the place eventually fades.
The attitude of treating historical places simply as things in the past and finding historical places with beautiful scenery are also things that further lose meaningful historical places. The historical place where the tragic event occurred in this era is neglected and alienated, and eventually disappearing. Since the existence of painful historical sites is an important cornerstone that reminds us of past errors and becomes a milestone in the future to come, many people should pay attention to ensure that the historical sites that are lessons exist correctly.
The landscape of a place is an element of the place that is most directly affected when experiencing a private place. Therefore, in order to create the right place landscape, you must have a true sense of place and constantly interact with the place.
The historical place he dealt with was the place where the tragic event took place, and the study was conducted focusing on the place where the architecture and landscape of the time remain to this day. After visiting the actual historical places in person, he became a temporary insider and interpreted the place. Prior to that, I would like to verify through Edward Relph's theory how to interpret and deal with historical places, where separate events have occurred, and how the process of becoming a temporary insider proceeds. Edward Relph explained the attitude of experiencing a place in the 'external-internal' stage, which he refers to not simply a physical inner and outer distinction from a location, but to how emotionally deeply a person is involved in the place when experiencing it. Before starting the work, I visit the place in person, examine the appearance, and take pictures to prepare for the work. This is an attitude belonging to the first step of internality among Relph's theories, 'actional internality'. The process begins by carefully paying attention to the appearance of the place and looking at the scenery of the place. If you put your emotions a little deeper in the behavioral internality stage, you can have the second step, the attitude of 'emotional internality'. As interest in places gradually shifts from appearance characteristics to empathy, active efforts of observers are needed. This includes collecting information on events and real people in this place that cannot be known only by the landscape, and actions to understand the actual victim's situation. When the 'emotional empathy' is reached, which is the pre-existing stage of internality, it can temporarily become an insider in the place,
After repeating the act of "visit-expansion of emotions" and becoming a temporary insider, I interpreted the historical place and observed the place mainly with a private perspective of "finding traces" and "doubting." This was carried out by periodically visiting a place to reveal the doubts and doubts commonly obtained in the work, and focusing on the scenery clearly visible from historical places or the appearance of the building.
A total of five historical sites, including Seodaemun Prison, Protest Movement Memorial Hall, Gwanghwamun Square, DMZ, Japanese Underground Bunker, and Jeju Seotal Oreum Massacre, were dealt with to study the existence of historical sites. I visually expressed the superficial characteristics of various historical places in the work, personal doubts, and questions on the canvas.