Collaboration with Korean Artist Sang-a Han

  My work begins with the core components of oriental painting: traditional Korean ink ‘meok’ and a paintbrush. Personally, I believe the essence of oriental painting lies within its strokes. Working with the movement of the ‘meok’ and paintbrush, I use my own style of ink painting to express my unstable state of mind. 

My pieces describe an internal landscape where my own experiences and the subsequent emotions that arise from them have become intertwined with reverie. Based upon ordinary events that everyone is likely to experience in their own lives, my confessions go beyond a personal narrative and broaden out into universal stories. 

In the East, the colour of ‘meok’ is recognised as Pure Black, which symbolises the true colour of the universe in the absence of the Sun’s light. The plethora of shades that this ink possesses represents the thousands of colours that make up all things within our universe and varies endlessly. Therefore, ‘meok’ isn’t just a simple black but has a huge spectrum of shades, which makes it a well-suited medium to tell my story.