Under the preposterous circumstances of viewing nature as the only means for the profits of men, people as social being are destined to separate from nature of necessity. Humans alienated from nature, however, are the very body- nature, and in that se...
Under the preposterous circumstances of viewing nature as the only means for the profits of men, people as social being are destined to separate from nature of necessity. Humans alienated from nature, however, are the very body- nature, and in that sense, they are just living with the loss of primitive roots. So any efforts to think of and find myself in nature may be a compensation for the loss through healing sense of isolation and wounds the civilized society brought about.
Based on my work of From here, Over there and Over the rainbow series, this study reviews the importance of men's spiritual value which changes in nature and abstraction of expression methods.
As social being, men cannot live alone and must accept inevitably social elements in order to live with others although they oppress them and destroy nature. But it necessarily causes solitude, which in turn demands nature for them to eagerly escape from such feeling of loneliness. Nature keeps out of unfair forces of society which suppress individuals, therefore it could give the peace of mind to men in addition to purifying their body and soul. To learn the providence and reason of nature helps men to realize a true inner mind that had to be forgotten so as to live as social being. With the encounter with nature, I started applying nature images to my work and through this process, I have witnessed my spiritual growth and at the same time renewed ways of getting out of endless tension.
The color-field layers piled up on the canvas of my works hold symbolic meanings like thickness of time piled high or the old scars. Such traces of life too deeply connected to each other to unlink could be after all liberated by interchange with nature. Color cracks of sharp shapes that are formed here and there on the screen are seen on a double curtain of opaque tone. The anxious-looking cracks go through long and winding roads and finally reach a way of life. Images of such gaps are the important subject in connecting my daily life and work of art and that is the start of a channel towards inner self along with nature. This small space left seemingly bitten or erased is reborn a true place that asks for introspection. And it is filled with the meaning of true love and eternal life.