The difference between a painting and a text is that the painting stands still in a place. Both the painting and the text are created within times, but the painting seems stationary. The viewers sometimes feel paintings come to life, but for most of the audiences, the paintings are just a stationary object. 
 
Dragging countless hours, a painting gets completed and becomes a stationary object. Would not this be a reason for a lot of contemporary people finding paintings complicated?
 
Ever since being in the field of Arts, the most frequently asked question from others in South Korea was, “what do you feel when you look at paintings?”. When we learn about paintings, we often hear that we have to understand the artist’s perspective and views towards the world. However, how can we understand something from paintings when they do not speak? This is a really complicated. On the other hand, a novel is not a big deal to be read through boring prints on a two-dimensional plane. What would be the reason for paintings that are relatively difficult compare to novels?
 
A writer expresses his or her perspectives and points of view in a novel through many ways. There are several factors that support the writer’s thoughts such as a character of a protagonist, relationships between characters, a narrator, background, events, narrative styles and etc. The audience can dive into the writer’s set-up and fully understand the story by enjoy reading all the factors. This is not a difficult thing to do, as only a tiny bit of effort and time of reading the listed characters are required.
 
So, a novel narrates with a descriptive voice about situations, emotions and events that change through a plot of a story, whereas a painting never let you know easily. This is also the reason for famous paintings earnig their fame – the narrative of them become even more intimate after repeatably shown in educational institutions and in news. 
 
The painting that is just standing still without saying anything is deficient to stop and hold busy modern people for a while. Hence, I would like to give a narrative to the painting. Perhaps it is a matter of course that humans living in times feel a sense of closeness with things in time, like different impressions we have in between stationary objects and alive animals or growing and withering plants that might seem stationary.
 
Then how would it be to capture the artist’s time and alive time on a stationary plane?
The series of paintings <Blooming and Withering Flower> depict the thoughts above.  


Blooming and Withering Tulips 01

What sets modern sources of light apart from their predecessors, such as the sun or a candle, is that they do not move nor change with time. 

Despite the evident benefits of light bulbs, what I cannot find in them are signs of vitality. In mother nature, the vitality comes from the fact that they change over time. Each carries traces of time, which makes them seem alive. However, such a trait is not present in artificial sources of light. They do not seem to interact with time.

Similarly, shadows born at night are fixed, unlike those continuously changing their shapes and directions under daylight on the streets or the walls.

By recording shadows of blooming and withering flowers, I strive to capture the concept of time, which flows like a river on us and the universe, on a two-dimensional plane. Also, only artificial light sources were used to shed shadows on and record the flowers' changes over time. Contrast exists between the human-created way of life, represented by light bulbs, and how nature abides by time, shown by the flowers' movements. By bringing this contrast to a single scene, I seek to integrate and understand these two different natures of life existing in a single world. 

Blooming and Withering tulips 02

Light is an immaterial matter that reveals all other substances. Where there is light, everything with mass, from elephants to molecules, has a shadow. In a universe where light is natural, shadows are evidence of existence. Since shadows emerge from the interaction between light and things, they are evidence of something being material not just abstract. Chanbyul use a shadow as a tool through which to understand the relationships that humans form with different concepts and objects.

Influenced by Impressionism, her works include 'time'. Einstein's theory of time and space adds time as a fourth dimension to the conventional perception of a three-dimensional world. Chanbyul represents the four-dimension by painting the three-dimension things including time on a two-dimension piece of paper. 

The painting <Blooming peony> illustrate the idea. Over time, the flower blooms. The bud soon unfolds dozens of petals. She record a track of time made by light and flowers. The produced paintings catch all the traces of time and change.  As a result, this series of paintings  reflect a rule of nature.


Material :
Multiple layers of watercolor painting are a record of the change when flowers bloom. It is transparent, so that other layers are superimposed on it. Watercolor is suitable material for painting multiple layers on the one page.

Withering Tulips 01

Light is an immaterial matter that reveals all other substances. Where there is light, everything with mass, from elephants to molecules, has a shadow. In a universe where light is natural, shadows are evidence of existence. Since shadows emerge from the interaction between light and things, they are evidence of something being material not just abstract. Chanbyul use a shadow as a tool through which to understand the relationships that humans form with different concepts and objects.



<Blooming peony>
Influenced by Impressionism, her works include 'time'. Einstein's theory of time and space adds time as a fourth dimension to the conventional perception of a three-dimensional world. Chanbyul represents the four-dimension by painting the three-dimension things including time on a two-dimension piece of paper. 

The painting <Blooming peony> illustrate the idea. Over time, the flower blooms. The bud soon unfolds dozens of petals. She record a track of time made by light and flowers. The produced paintings catch all the traces of time and change.  As a result, this series of paintings  reflect a rule of nature.


Material :
Multiple layers of watercolor painting are a record of the change when flowers bloom. It is transparent, so that other layers are superimposed on it. Watercolor is suitable material for painting multiple layers on the one page.

Blooming peony 01

Light is an immaterial matter that reveals all other substances. Where there is light, everything with mass, from elephants to molecules, has a shadow. In a universe where light is natural, shadows are evidence of existence. Since shadows emerge from the interaction between light and things, they are evidence of something being material not just abstract. Chanbyul use a shadow as a tool through which to understand the relationships that humans form with different concepts and objects.


An object can have many shadows from multiple lights coming from different directions. What seems like a single shadow often consists of multiple shadows. This is because there is usually more than one source of light around us, although such a fact is often overlooked. This is the shape of the present era that is completely different from the past.In particular, seeing the shadows of plants on the road in the middle of the night was unimaginable in the past. The shadow is a great tool for facing the world we live in.

In addition, the shadow is proof that 'I' exists in the present moment as an observer. Recording a shadow is possible only when an object blocks the light and creates darkness. Chanbyul records this moment as both observer and recorder. Chanbyul hopes to deliver the idea that shadows can thus be tools through which to understand the relationships that humans form with different concepts and objects.

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Material:
Shadows have different shades depending on the intensity of light and the type of light source. Multiple layers of shadows create a deeper darkness. Watercolor is great material to express the characteristic of shadow. 

A flower and five lights

A flower and three lights

Three flowers and one light

A red berry spray and three lights

A rose and four lights

A bunch of flowers and one light /ver.1

A bunch of flowers and one light/ver.2

Light is an immaterial matter that reveals all other substances. Where there is light, everything with mass, from elephants to molecules, has a shadow. In a universe where light is natural, shadows are evidence of existence. Since shadows emerge from the interaction between light and things, they are evidence of something being material not just abstract. Chanbyul use a shadow as a tool through which to understand the relationships that humans form with different concepts and objects.

An object can have many shadows from multiple lights coming from different directions. What seems like a single shadow often consists of multiple shadows. This is because there is usually more than one source of light around us, although such a fact is often overlooked. This is the shape of the present era that is completely different from the past.

In addition, the shadow is proof that 'I' exists in the present moment as an observer. Recording a shadow is possible only when an object blocks the light and creates darkness. Chanbyul records this moment as both observer and recorder. Chanbyul hopes to deliver the idea that shadows can thus be tools through which to understand the relationships that humans form with different concepts and objects.


Material:
Shadows have different shades depending on the intensity of light and the type of light source. Multiple layers of shadows create a deeper darkness. Watercolor is great material to express the characteristic of shadow. 

A chair and one light 1

A chair and one light 2

A chair and one light 3

Light is an immaterial matter that reveals all other substances. Where there is light, everything with mass, from elephants to molecules, has a shadow. In a universe where light is natural, shadows are evidence of existence. Since shadows emerge from the interaction between light and things, they are evidence of something being material not just abstract. Chanbyul use a shadow as a tool through which to understand the relationships that humans form with different concepts and objects.


An object can have many shadows from multiple lights coming from different directions. What seems like a single shadow often consists of multiple shadows. This is because there is usually more than one source of light around us, although such a fact is often overlooked. This is the shape of the present era that is completely different from the past.In particular, seeing the shadows of plants on the road in the middle of the night was unimaginable in the past. The shadow is a great tool for facing the world we live in.

In addition, the shadow is proof that 'I' exists in the present moment as an observer. Recording a shadow is possible only when an object blocks the light and creates darkness. Chanbyul records this moment as both observer and recorder.

Chanbyul hopes to deliver the idea that shadows can thus be tools through which to understand the relationships that humans form with different concepts and objects.

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Material:
Shadows have different shades depending on the intensity of light and the type of light source. Multiple layers of shadows create a deeper darkness. Watercolor is great material to express the characteristic of shadow. 

A branch of Christmas tree(Korean Fir) and one light /ver1

A branch of Christmas tree(Korean Fir) and two lights /ver1

A bunch of flowers and one light / ver.4

Common gypsophila and three lights

Common gypsophila and two lights

Common gypsophila and one light

Branches and three lights

Branches and two lights

Branches and one light

Plants and one light

This is a work that records the shadow. Shadow is evidence of the relationship between light and objects. Light is essential to recognize an object. Lights and objects always exist in a universe. Hence they form a shadow, serves as evidence of what exists in the present. 

At the same time, the shadow is proof that 'I' exists in the present moment as an observer. Recording a shadow is possible only when an object blocks the light and creates darkness. Chanbyul records this moment as both observer and recorder.

In addition, unlike in the past, when there was only one shadow, now we have multiple shadows. Artificial light is a product of this era. Different angles and different numbers of shadows reflect the world we live in.

Chanbyul hopes to deliver the idea that shadows can thus be tools through which to understand the relationships that humans form with different concepts and objects.

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