Play in the garden

In the stage of her 5th exhibition (2004), she has been identifying her way of drawing formatively and completely in the paintings. It soon became her trade mark that the small people who take care of the trees with huge leaves and the water stream from the propeller and the rainbow at the end of the water flow. People might be able to notice her intention and joined into the labor of gardening the farm while taking a look at the people in the screen who are shown as fairy tale character that they are actually her family and neighbors. The secret world grew out of the screen to become the farm for those who enjoyed the scenes. she has completed her feature in a formal way that is a result of her characteristic expression which is well described in drawing the large leaves in contrast of the relatively small people in the canvas. And the effect showed her microscopic point of view for the material on the big screen with the fantastic images.

Recently, she is working on the series of the and that there are small people featuring in the pictures who are children playing in the garden or a kid who is watering and who are hanging on the trees or playing joyfully under the shadow of the large leaves. The size of the screen has enlarged to express the space division in which there are floating clouds on the background and garden space is the place for panorama composed of the place and her emotion. And the materials for the pictures have been varied with a flock of bird, a variety of plant and fishes that has reflected the fantastic images on canvas.

Her characteristic way of paintings has provided us who have lost the dream with a place for peace in mind. This concord from the viewers could be found in the response for the article of art review. There are more meaning in her drawings that show the big scale picture with small subject. Because of the fact that her formative ability in depicting the vision should not be overlooked that she discovered the fantastic space hidden in the background of normal life and illustrated her vision into a clear material existence. It is also necessary to get to know that there is her realization of the reality about world beyond the ordinarily private life that she has tried to describe it in the fantastic images and show the reflection of the modern world.

From the outset in the mid 2000, when Song dealt with nature as pseudo simulacra, her green color daubing canvases has played a crucial role. Only a few discernable paints belong to the contiguous colors of green. Barely-appearing red is the complementary color of green, and brown works to fade the green. White is used as a void or an empty space rather than a color, suggesting another plane by interacting with the natural and psychological color.

The fairy tale space of her screen is an idealistic world for adults. It’s the reflection of hope of living in an innocent nature of the modern times and the match of the fantasy and ordinary life without separation like both sides of coin in either way. Her paintings with the theme of materials of life for ten years are fulfilled with these healthy and creative daydreams.

* This is an excerpt from a preface (Kim Young Ho: Art Critic) of a Park Hyung-Jin’s art book ‘Wish to grow well’(published by Pium in 2007)