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Artist Statement
I am an artist who works primarily with traditional drawing mediums: pen, graphite, and marker. I am interested in the human embodiment complexity of the inner world, and I also desire to expand drawing as a primary art form in itself with the various inner world related subjects.
Historically, drawing has been deemed as sub-material or even as a preparatory process of a bigger art form. For example, drawing was formerly employed to record crucial historical events or to reenact certain subjects. However, after Modernism, drawing has been expanding its realm as one of the primary art forms by its autonomy. In the contemporary art scene, it has been presenting various potential and directions that can reveal the profound beauty of drawing. I have been creating drawings that can suggest another direction of drawing.
I create drawings with the belief that “Drawing is the art form that can manifest the beauty of visual art’s foundation, and the beauty is formed with the interaction between various lines and images.” My drawings contain a certain feature of maximalism. My work is like an orchestra; all various kinds of visual elements will be unified and create an intensified structural dynamic that can be conducted by its mediums. I limit colors to accentuate the raw aesthetic of drawing and to enhance a certain amusement in the relationship between visual images by emphasizing line, form, and composition. Through experimenting with various subjects and approaches, I create a peculiar drawing form that can highlight the beauty of drawing.
To me, art is the action of leaving behind traces of human life. Art is the most creative representation of human life; it is the act of leaving behind their most precious emotions, perspectives, facts, and opinions. To me, my life and values exist within the inner world, where numbers of complex emotions and mind elements exist like molecules. The inner world is no different from reality, but rather a place where the overall perception, emotions, and thoughts of the real world are encoded convergent forms of different images. The forms of the inner imageries do not exist as they are; they are distorted, assembled, exaggerated, and stretched by each other, much like the creation of the universe. The inner imageries are ambiguous but creatively personal to me, and I work on those unaccustomed images, which exhibit the inner world’s dynamic and peculiar atmosphere in my drawings through deep introspection.
I believe conveying humans’ ambiguous and complicated aspects through visual images is the significant role and value of visual art. My clear goal as a visual artist is to further expand the form of drawing in a new way by harmonizing the multifarious visual elements of the drawing like an orchestra, and the vastness of an informal and complex inner world that represent the traces of my life. Through my drawings, I want to create a meaningful moment where the audience can contemplate their own hidden world that we may have unknowingly been missing in our lives.