The Materialization of the Incorporeal World       

                                                 

                                                                                   Prologue   

                                    “All people undergo an ordeal during their lifetime; it ushers us to perform something that we wouldn't have thought of before.
                                    In my life’s ordeal, I encounter intense emotional dynamics that are illogical and  unexplainable. The experience ushers me into expressing
                                            undiscovered, inexplicable worlds of the human mind as visual images and materializing them in the world via my art.”

                                                                                                                                       

                                                                            Personal History   

        I was an  idealistic person. I always dreamed of an ideal world that could not exist. The world that existed inside of me was one where only ideal components were, such as love, care, or generosity. My vision was similar to Disney’s vision; I believed that our lives will be like Disney’s happily ever after. However, as time went on, I realized the distinct gap between the ideal and reality; then skepticism ascended from the bottom of my inner world: skepticism about the world that I had been perceiving, and skepticism towards myself. Within that moment of skepticism regarding everything about myself, I detected my imperfection; my inner world was intensely broken down.

        Belief and perception were my central axis to sustain my inner world. When the axis was shattered, there was a swirl of intense emotional dynamics. I was completely lost in controlling those emotions and experienced difficulty explaining the swirling sentiments as words or sentences. I encountered mixed-up psychological struggles: anxiety, emptiness, alienation, disorientation, insecurities, and loneliness. Since then, I have perceived myself as a person stuck in the inescapable, broken, incorporeal world.
  

                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                   Concept

        As an artist, I visualize the illogical and complicated world that exists in the human mind through images due to the failure of words or sentences.  In our inner world, we possess complicated countless emotions, formed with numerous particle emotions like molecules. This leads me to believe that the crucial role of visual art is presenting hidden human emotion in a format that everyone can experience  directly without the intervention of words. The subject of my art has been altered along with my life experiences, thus an overall theme is absent. The clear goal that I desire is to materialize the incorporeal world in order to invite the audience into perceiving perplexing emotions as visual images.

                                                                                                                                     

                                                                        The Veiled Explanation   

   
        I narrow down the logical explanation of my pieces by using only a few words or sentences. I might be deemed an artist who would be unable to fulfill the current art world’s expectation of defining one’s art in a logical sense. However, I still prefer to diminish the explanation to usher the audience into my visual creation and to give them freedom of interpretation. Reducing the explanation of art provides the audience with freedom of interpretation. I notice one prominent phenomenon in which viewers remain stuck in the caption of an art piece in museums or galleries. They seem to search for the answer in that caption. In my pieces, I attach weight to the audience having the freedom to freely interpret and create their meaning out of my works while enjoying the visual images.
      The audience doesn’t necessarily have to comprehend art according to artists’ intentions. The relationship between the artist and audience is like the process of encoding and decoding in the media. In the encoding process in art, the artist acts as the subject for the creation and the art acts as the medium for creating a conversation with the world. Then, the decoding process is generated in the process of interaction between audiences and art pieces. Limiting the explanation surrounding art will encourage decoding to occur.


                                                                                                                                Additional beliefs regarding this:

                                                                                                            1. Artists are not the sole creators of the meaning of art.
                                                                               2. In the current art world I perceive a distinct hierarchy existing between word and image. 
                                                                                                                        Explanation has become indispensable in art.
                                                                                                                        However, art can exist without explanation.

        My art retains ambiguity. I believe art is similar to us; we both art and humans possess all different and diverse personalities. As in humans, ambiguity and clarity coexist in art. For me, art is sentiments and experiences rather than definitions and defined studies.

                                                                                                                                                       

                                                                                    Drawing

        Historically, drawing has been deemed as sub-materials or a preparatory process of a certain art form. However, I consider that it can exist as the primary art form. We have been falling in love with colors and may have lost the recognition of how the other basic formal elements can produce another type of beauty.
                                                                                                                          What if we get rid of the splendidness of art?
       
                                                                                                                                What kinds of beauty will emerge then?
        I strongly believe in the possibility of drawing. Like an orchestra, all different kinds of visual elements can be unified within any piece and create an intensified structural dynamic. I limit the colors to accentuate the beauty of drawing itself and to enhance the beauty of the relationship between visual images and structures. Through diminishing the color aspect, I intensify the position of the visual images and structural compositions in my works, emphasizing more on the line, form, and composition.
                                                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                     Materials           

          Most of my works are done with pen, graphite, and marker, because these are the materials  with which I feel a strong connection. Whenever I am stuck in those depressive emotions; anxiety, insecurity, loneliness, I grab drawing materials and draw ceaselessly on random papers to reduce the dramatic feelings. For instance, repetition, which is very significant to me, is the motion not only for the unity within a drawing but also for my own meditation process.
                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                     

                                                                            Component/ Process                       

  1. First, the theme is the starting point

Each piece is composed of different sub-themes. Sub-themes are mostly based on certain sentiments or moods.

     2. Second, imagination is the base component to materialize my inner world as a visual form.

       I concentrate on one sentiment and develop the imagery in my head and I sketch repeatedly on paper or in digital format. 

    3.  Third, the relationship between space and subject is persuasion and entertainment.

    It will persuade the incorporeal world to manifest as a corporeal world through relationship to the audience; entertainment is given by observing subject matter in space.
                     
    4. Repetition is for unifying and revealing sentiments.

     Repetition unifies different visual components, like an orchestra for instruments, and creates a visual illusion, which is for the audience’s visual entertaintment.
    It is also present as a pattern to enhance the beauty of drawing. It reveals my unsettling inner world indirectly, which is full of insecurities, anxiety and disorientation.




                                                                                                                                                       

                                                                                 Epilogue

        I want to be an artist who creates art pieces in which people can feel a certain sentiment and visual entertainment; I want to interact with audiences psychologically. I feel that the possibility of drawing is enormous and it’s not fully discovered yet. I believe there is a certain type of beauty and entertainment that only drawing can produce and that it should embody its difference from other visual forms. As an artist, I want to expand to consider my drawings as a primary art form and visual entertainment.
        My art is sentiments. I don’t want my art to be a type of art that is difficult to understand or associate with. Since human sentiments are shared by all,  I believe audiences can interact with my pieces psychologically. In my incorporeal world,  this consists of countless small particles of emotional worlds, like molecules. The inner world cannot be described fully in a logical sense. Therefore, I materialize smaller worlds in visual form to present my world. This demonstrates the fact that one's emotion is the element that cannot be presented completely. I believe the inner world is less fully explored than the outer. I hope people have a chance to explore their inner world deeply by enjoying visual entertainment through my art.