Tension of distance, 2009, Charcoal and Ink on canvas, 1.5 by 10m
The concept of distance means that there’s blank spacetime in which two kinds of the world can coexist. The trace of the material, the shape of the spaces, the spacetime that called present, and memory that just passed by, human kind of contemporary, the conversation and the relationship between us, hidden thought are unfolded when it is recognized, as if it had been here from the start, without any changes. As being others, landscape is possible for the first time. In the moment, the object and subject also coexist. The center of the world has shifted. With a contrast between life and death, we can see the variety of our life shades. The distance between you and me makes all the multiplicity of the conversation, and allows us to be together. The blank space is covered as coexisting, and the conversation is possible between the viewer and image.
There are moments where I am walking down the street, watching people. Each person has their own landscape: we are organisms that are changing every moments, hair on your arm, inhalation, and exhalation. That landscape is an untold story. It is full of shapes and traces. It is a subtle layer that exists between the visual and the internal, like a conversation that just happened. It has sudden interjection, and sometimes needs time to process. Facing people, who run far away from sudden raindrops, on the streets, as a cab passes from sight, the sound of rain hits my skin. The cab is still vanishing from my sight, as I stand in the rain, watching people. Painting embraces the union of these brief moments of life. It’s not matter of knowing, but understanding. It breaks the boundaries between the objects and the subjects. At the moment, all the marks and traces are suddenly appearing in front of you like it never happened before.