_2012.1.18
Hyun Sun Jo
<Mark-making, changing, and the pleasure of discovering>
I repeat painting and erasing probably because I cannot make a beautiful painting at one go. But I do not erase perfectly thus, I even intentionally paint badly to erase. I do so because erased marks intrigue me. Painting, covering up, scraping off... I like when all these activities are revealed in my painting. In my painting, there are traces of scribbling and layering. I mix and abstract the experiences I observe and report by using painting languages such as, curvy lines, hard edges, and multiple colors.
As a person who loves walking, I walk a lot and discover many things while walking. While doing so, I realized that the process of constructing a painting is similar to the process of constructing a city that dreams Utopia. When I wander around a city, I often find traces of changing: things that have disappeared or things that have newly made. Things keep transforming toward their ideals. How they change is sometimes amusing and sometimes violent. When I meet an obsolete place that looks as if time has stopped in there or something that's being newly constructed, I stop for a good while to look at it. While walking, I find an orange little thing on the gray pavement that must have been repaired many times. "What is it?" I ask myself and look into it then all of a sudden, I am somehow amused. I look at a tangled florescent something found in a destroyed building, and I think that's pretty. Weird smoke spout or a clang clang clang sound from that obsolete site scatters all my gathered thoughts.
When I come back to my studio, I transform my discoveries into painting languages. Sometimes, I discover a new thing from my working process which has so little do with my discovery outside my studio. Then I want to make more works therefore, I walk, discover, paint, and change again.
Hyun Sun Jo
<Mark-making, changing, and the pleasure of discovering>
I repeat painting and erasing probably because I cannot make a beautiful painting at one go. But I do not erase perfectly thus, I even intentionally paint badly to erase. I do so because erased marks intrigue me. Painting, covering up, scraping off... I like when all these activities are revealed in my painting. In my painting, there are traces of scribbling and layering. I mix and abstract the experiences I observe and report by using painting languages such as, curvy lines, hard edges, and multiple colors.
As a person who loves walking, I walk a lot and discover many things while walking. While doing so, I realized that the process of constructing a painting is similar to the process of constructing a city that dreams Utopia. When I wander around a city, I often find traces of changing: things that have disappeared or things that have newly made. Things keep transforming toward their ideals. How they change is sometimes amusing and sometimes violent. When I meet an obsolete place that looks as if time has stopped in there or something that's being newly constructed, I stop for a good while to look at it. While walking, I find an orange little thing on the gray pavement that must have been repaired many times. "What is it?" I ask myself and look into it then all of a sudden, I am somehow amused. I look at a tangled florescent something found in a destroyed building, and I think that's pretty. Weird smoke spout or a clang clang clang sound from that obsolete site scatters all my gathered thoughts.
When I come back to my studio, I transform my discoveries into painting languages. Sometimes, I discover a new thing from my working process which has so little do with my discovery outside my studio. Then I want to make more works therefore, I walk, discover, paint, and change again.