Friday, January 4, 2008

recent artist statement


I find our lives to be full of dramas. I believe these dramas come from the nonsense in our lives. We cannot comprehend nonsense with our customary thoughts. I am interested in lines that divide things that make sense from things that do not.

In pocket size sketchbooks, I draw and reinterpret images that come into my mind, happenings, dreams, and emotions at the time. The simplicity of materials and techniques allow me to have flexible and spontaneous ways to produce images. The drawings do not directly explain the meanings, reasons, and realities of our lives, but I feel an internal necessity to communicate with others through images, which I cannot explain in words. I consider communication through languages and words to be external communication. I consider what I am trying to do with the drawings to be internal communication. Through the drawings, I try to find a fundamental story or subconscious sequence in the images and re-evaluate values and cognition that I have experienced in my life. Then, I search for ways to develop the drawings through other media such as painting, installation, and sculpture.

My goal is having my language through the activity to welcome the nonsense with awe. And I believe this action helps me overcome stereotypes and prejudices against unknowable in our lives.

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