Anonymous Land (1991-1992)
Before and after graduation from university, I painted Anonymous land series that reflected the times of 80’s in Korea based on utilitarian humanism.
Yet, it wasn’t long before I felt doubts about whether the composition of series was artificially set up for revealing doctrines and ideologies that were intricately mingling inside and outside of the country. The dissolution of the Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in my early 30s awakened me to seek a more perpetual theme, for which I moved my studio to Haenam County on the southern tip of Korea. This was where From Night series began which consisted of landscape paintings that depicted my journey around neighboring regions.
