ART

When I looked at the winding structured brain, I associated with an entangled thread. This association of the brain and an entangled thread initiated me to think an idea of “knitting brain”. Delicate and trivial thread gathered and became sturdy brain. Knitting Brain symbolizes process of being mature by overcoming pain and suffering from small troubles and worries.

People’s face looks like a maze to me. It is hard to recognize his or her real intention. Sometimes concealing the truth with a little bit of smile or no expression is used in human relations.

I have to find the end of face maze of people, even in the face of my friends and families .

I have contacted with old my friend. Our conversation have hurt each other and gave humongous stresses. My blood vessels felt like inflating as if it was about to blow up my head. Our dirty tongues hurt others like mad storm.

I have a lot of interest in others so most of my sketches are faces of people.

I gathered some faces from my sketchbook and made this work. They are secretly looking down to observe me.

This drawing is about nightmare. There were little accidents since I was little.

Those accidents include falling off from a bunkbed, getting hurt by falling while catching basketball, oozing blood from the face after accident while skiing, and getting lost in the streets when I am with my parents.

I hoped that drawing this nightmare might be a process of healing my wound.

There are too many thoughts in my mind. I am anxiously oppressed and stifled.

What if there is a hole in my mind so wind can go through?

Would that make my mind refreshing and clear?

Sometimes, I want to make a hole for the wind.

Sometimes anxiety comes over to me. Can I accomplish my dream?

It feels like my dreams are about to break in to pieces.

I related broken pieces of eggs shell with my anxious dream.

Using real egg shells on this drawing, I tried to maximize greatness of human life with fragile hope.

I am a coward. My heart beats fast even when I am little scared. White is color of fear to me. It reminds me of ghosts, corpses, and sharp air in hospitals. A gigantic white heart is hung from the ceiling in a white room. It feels like that heart might attack me immediately in a moment. Only one thing that shields and saves me is a blanket I cover with since I was a baby.

Entangled glue-guns brought up the complex aspect of relationship between humans.

I tried to show representation of not only the sill life but also tangled complexity to make it more abstract by roughly expressing.

One day I looked reflection of myself in the mirror when I looked at the messy still lives. Still life should be just one subject but I saw myself among those still life. Coming both object and subject in sight at once interested me. I became a still life by drawing reflection of myself in the mirror.

Since I was ten, my older sister and I studied abroad so we had to be separated from our family. Thus spending time with my family is very precious and important. I have numerous memories of swimming pool when we traveled Hong Kong. This pool incorporates plenty of my memories instead of putting so much details about the pool.  

Small buildings are crowded complicatedly in every little streets in Korea. “X-lined composition” can be observed when I look at the streets. I tried to express this piece more interesting by simplifying and leaving out details like “the Pool”, rather than streets with complex neon signs.

I archly drew my friends who work together in art studio in a way I just want to draw and tried to incorporate their personalities and characteristics.

I believe that portrait should comprise one’s characters and personalities in a drawing rather than depicting only what can be observed in appearance. Then, how should I draw a self-portrait which illustrates my uniqueness? I’m wild eyed and humorous. Therefore I drew my reflection of a convex mirror and tried to put my foolish face expressions, so that everyone who knows me could think “this is like Sumin”. After I finished my portrait of my reflection, I added some flower drawings within styles of kitsch art to multiply my character

I drew this self-portrait by touching my face with my hands to feel the length and width of my facial features when mirror is commonly used to draw self portrait.

My life feels like softly spreading charcoal. My noses and eyebrows feels as if lines are tangled. Couldn’t we learn better and more when we do not observe with our eyes and use different way?

I do not have a lot of knowledge of stock but going up and down is only one basic principal I know about stock. There is no guarantee getting back what have been invested. Sometime there are even great financial loss. It is similar with human relations. It does not matter how much I gave to whom. Relationship is always unstable. One sudden day, I read graph of human relation in stock graph.

I saw an old man bent with age in a plane. I associated his bent spine with a roller-coaster. I also associated his life with a roller-coaster. I created a “Life Graph” which illustrate up & down parts of his life. This piece is drawn in respect of the old man who have spent a long period of time.