I am doing work that draws images encountered in life as paintings throughmetaphorical methods based on the unconscious accumulated in a psychologicallyand economically isolated environment, and analyzes their meanings.This research began with recogni...
I am doing work that draws images encountered in life as paintings throughmetaphorical methods based on the unconscious accumulated in a psychologicallyand economically isolated environment, and analyzes their meanings.This research began with recognizing sensations that cannot be explained bylanguage in my life and work, and those sensations fixated emotions of bitternessand melancholy, regret and longing in my inner self, and simultaneously made mecontinuously ruminate on questions about emotions with unknown causes.This reveals that it is related to the unconscious mentioned by Sigmund Freud asa concept of psychoanalysis. My unconscious viewed through the two mechanismsof repression and trauma that constitute the unconscious suggests that it wasformed through my parents' divorce and conflict within the family, and economicanxiety and severance of human relationships. Furthermore, the language structuresystem in Jacques Lacan's symbolic order becomes the basis for proving that theforms observed in my work are ultimately the result of the unconscious beingsubstituted into visual forms through metaphor, as the unconscious is revealed inthe form of metaphor and metonymy. Also, through the unconscious accidentally encountered in the process ofreproducing past photographs as paintings, I confirm that the color tone and noiseof past photographs, and blurriness operate as elements that make the unconsciousrecognized, and the research reveals that the unconscious can be substituted intovisual forms and, conversely, the unconscious can be recognized through visualforms.Accordingly, I came to know that my works are also divided into two methods inthe research process, and one is substituting the unconscious into images inpainting through the method of metaphor, and the other is the fact that I amdiscovering the unconscious that was metaphorized through scenes of films andreproducing it as paintings.The meaning of these works functions as a field where one's past and presentform dialogue in the process of analyzing, and it was conducted with the purposeof facing my inner self based on the unconscious and viewing life clearly, andfurthermore provides framework and directionality, and depth in the work.