Dream of Rest
1.
There is an artist. Every creative result in the world reflects an artist's perspective. An artist captures fleeting moments of impression in his or her mind. Constant praise and effort for beauty would easily disappear if a work of art, as a visual result, only consisted of simple material and imagery. An artist is not definable. However, an art critic, like me, can make a mistake in enjoy criticizing an artist. For art critics, an artist and a work of art should be as one the same as twins. They try to apply current styles and a discourse to a work of art in order to establish their designated system or formula. On the contrary, artists can be aloof from it. A work of art for them is a result of employing their curiosity. It also can be a challenge to or confrontation toward the world. As Bachelard points out, it would be out of the question to define someone who is born to organize the imaginative appeal of the world, as making artwork.
2.
There is a symbol. In order to understand the symbols created by an artist, we need to investigate them. Bachelard once said, humans know the value of both inside and outside. I, as an adherent of Bachelard, am very interested in the essence that a symbol signifies. Every symbol is the outcome of an exquisite combination of consciousness and unconsciousness. If we live in a realm of consciousness, artists get pleasure from searching for images’ original forms hidden in their unconscious. They are not afraid of searching in the sediment of their unconsciousness. Many of them even settle in this vague area. This is the reason I call an artist's discovery from the world a "day dream." The imagery that most artists look for is the embodiment of their dreams and their unconsciousness.
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There is an artist named Gowoon Lee. There is a symbol called "Cloud Tree." She uses Jangji, a traditional Korean paper, even though she studied western painting. We need to pay attention to images that make viewers float off somewhere. A form, we believe, in general, expands to a realm when the artist comes and goes from between the conscious and unconscious world. The main structure of work, Cloud Tree, transforms into a forest, a pond, or a body hiding a face. It seems that an image of a body shown without revealing its head represents the artist herself, who wants to enjoy her floating moment of unconsciousness. There are various ways to interpret the symbols in her paintings. When viewers look at Cloud Tree, it is as if they were having a dream. They might hear and see images beyond their consciousness without actually hearing or seeing something from the painting. They will be participating in this young artist's journey accompanied by echoes from symbolic images. The viewers will enjoy a living dream of rest through her works. Who knows? Our complicated lives might take a leisurely turn.
1.
There is an artist. Every creative result in the world reflects an artist's perspective. An artist captures fleeting moments of impression in his or her mind. Constant praise and effort for beauty would easily disappear if a work of art, as a visual result, only consisted of simple material and imagery. An artist is not definable. However, an art critic, like me, can make a mistake in enjoy criticizing an artist. For art critics, an artist and a work of art should be as one the same as twins. They try to apply current styles and a discourse to a work of art in order to establish their designated system or formula. On the contrary, artists can be aloof from it. A work of art for them is a result of employing their curiosity. It also can be a challenge to or confrontation toward the world. As Bachelard points out, it would be out of the question to define someone who is born to organize the imaginative appeal of the world, as making artwork.
2.
There is a symbol. In order to understand the symbols created by an artist, we need to investigate them. Bachelard once said, humans know the value of both inside and outside. I, as an adherent of Bachelard, am very interested in the essence that a symbol signifies. Every symbol is the outcome of an exquisite combination of consciousness and unconsciousness. If we live in a realm of consciousness, artists get pleasure from searching for images’ original forms hidden in their unconscious. They are not afraid of searching in the sediment of their unconsciousness. Many of them even settle in this vague area. This is the reason I call an artist's discovery from the world a "day dream." The imagery that most artists look for is the embodiment of their dreams and their unconsciousness.
3.
There is an artist named Gowoon Lee. There is a symbol called "Cloud Tree." She uses Jangji, a traditional Korean paper, even though she studied western painting. We need to pay attention to images that make viewers float off somewhere. A form, we believe, in general, expands to a realm when the artist comes and goes from between the conscious and unconscious world. The main structure of work, Cloud Tree, transforms into a forest, a pond, or a body hiding a face. It seems that an image of a body shown without revealing its head represents the artist herself, who wants to enjoy her floating moment of unconsciousness. There are various ways to interpret the symbols in her paintings. When viewers look at Cloud Tree, it is as if they were having a dream. They might hear and see images beyond their consciousness without actually hearing or seeing something from the painting. They will be participating in this young artist's journey accompanied by echoes from symbolic images. The viewers will enjoy a living dream of rest through her works. Who knows? Our complicated lives might take a leisurely turn.
