Artist Statement
My artistic practice, which began in 1994, has been guided by a single question:
How are all things connected?
This question emerged from the meeting of two distinct ways of thinking. One was the formal language presented in Wassily Kandinsky's Point and Line to Plane. The other was my encounter with the worldview I found in the Korean ritual of Jinogwi-gut.
Kandinsky demonstrated that the point, the line, and the plane constitute the fundamental language of visual form. His writings led me to understand the line not merely as a graphic element but as a vehicle for thought.
At the same time, through Jinogwi-gut I encountered a worldview in which life and death, humanity and nature, the past and the present are understood not as separate realms but as parts of a continuous flow. Rather than perceiving existence as isolated entities, I came to see relationships, transformation, and continuity as fundamental conditions of being.
The encounter between these two perspectives gradually evolved into the central concept of my work:
Everything is interconnected.
In my early works, I repeatedly drew unconscious lines on the reverse side of wooden panels, discovering latent images within their intersections. Later, I introduced thread onto the canvas, allowing accidental relationships to generate unexpected forms. In recent works, my interest has shifted beyond the physical use of thread toward revealing the invisible structures of relationship and flow that underlie existence itself.
For me, the line is no longer a formal element.
It is a relationship.
It is the trace of time.
It is the flow that connects one existence to another.
My paintings are therefore not representations of objects but attempts to visualize invisible relationships. The images that emerge are not isolated forms; they are traces of interconnected life, revealing a world in which humanity, nature, and the universe participate in one continuous flow.
Through painting, I seek to make visible the invisible connections that unite all existence and to explore the continuous flow through which everything is transformed.
