As Gaston Bachelard once remarked, “Cloud is one of the most dreamlike poetic objet,” cloud is a source of inspiration as well as a dreamy motif to me. One day, I dropped by a frame shop where I saw a process of attaching a paper on the back of a painting before framing to make it flat and tight. While an expert in the shop sincerely pasted and took off a paper during that process, as the paper was repeatedly overlapped on the painting, traces were left behind which I found beautiful. It was wherein air, time, and labor were meeting altogether, which evoked an abstract aesthetic sense.

Air and Dream series is embodiment of cloud and wind. On an uncoated linen fabric, pieces of a natural dyed Korean paper were pasted and then tiny pieces of the world’s thinnest type of Korean paper were overlapped to express a thin layer of air, above which imageries of cloud and wind were created as if tiny particles of water vapor formed clouds. I would spend a long time pasting tiny pieces of Korean paper on the painting until distracting thoughts and pain went away. It was a process of disciplining myself as well as praying, through which cloud as objet which incessantly circulates reflected thoughts and philosophical view on an invisible world out of its visible imagery.