A scrap imagery

My paintings explore the fleeting essence of “Geumho San,” the Seoul slums in South Korea where I grew up, which now linger as ephemeral landscapes in collective memory.

These places, created amidst the struggles post-Korean War and Japan’s departure in 1945, are a testament to the yearning for a brighter future. Through oil paints, I render the tactile quality of these memories, with complex structures now blurred and colors muted by the passage of time.

With a raw immediacy and tenderness, I loose brushstrokes to create unstability of my retrospect and build up geometry shapes of flat plane that come out to me intensive. Also, lump and thick of oil is a few examples to capture snapshots of a reality and recollection.

My paintings lie at the intersection of abstraction and realism by extracting indeterminate forms generated by dots, lines, and faces in describing the old places as it is, where to be considered as worthlessness for aesthetic, invoking Geumho San’s textures and the emotional remnants that my memories.

This process transforms the landscape into a canvas of abstracted chaos, prompting viewers to interpret involving imagery of my personal recollections.