Our life in the 21st century is no different from that of the Joseon Dynasty.
Is it just wages, social class, cultural illiteracy,political speculation, poverty, war, factional strife,
and disease? He is as ferocious as a bulldog that bites every time an incident occurs. There is no
forgiveness and no sharing. So I am living without healing. I feel sorry for not being able to possess
or enjoy even the smallest happiness.
No one confesses, ‘It’s my fault.’ As a writer, there isn’t much I can offer to comfort you. I worked with a message based on the meaning of the tropical plant Alocasia, which means ‘you will be fine’ and ‘cheer up.’
We recently went through an unexpected Coronaera. There are many neighbors who have suffered
separation due to the coronavirus. I want to pat myself on the back and say, ‘It’s not your fault.’
Hangul, which stands out for its beauty of straight lines, is free in the conciseness of fonts, symbols,
and signs of consonants and vowels. The lines of Hangul are thrown into the air in the
manner of Yutnori, a traditional folk game, and images of scattered or disintegrated consonants
and vowels are placed on the canvas by imagination. Yutnori is a vaccine that cures the ‘han’ that has
taken root within our people.
Ganggangsullae,a game of throwing and singing along with body movements, is a national vaccine that lets out and heals the resentment in the heart through sound and play. So, it is not just a simple game of Yut, but has the meaning of comfort and recovery. I think that a humorous approach that incorporates exciting play and empty elegance is our unique modern painting.
The leaves of the tropical plant Alocasia look like taro leaves and some people confuse them with lotus leaves, but the meaning of the plant is for wounded nature and humans.We want to reinterpret Hangul and Alocasia in our own modern conversational language. The concept of looking at society or the country is different in each era. Sharing, which allows someone to forgive and be forgiven, was intended to concisely express the spirit of Joseon, which is fully contained in folk tales.