ARTIST’S NOTE | 9
Color
2018 노트에서 발췌
Color exists in my work not as mere decoration, but as an intelligence of sensation.
It is perceived through sight, yet it does not remain within sight. Like the seasoning that defines a taste—sweet, salty, or sour—it carries the temperature of flavor. Like a scent that lingers in memory, it evokes the residue of feeling, and like a voice in music, it conveys invisible rhythm and breath. Color dissolves the boundaries between senses and reveals that all perception can become a form of thought.
There is always a hierarchy within the visible world. At times, color stands at the center, making its presence known; at others, it withdraws into silence, hiding behind the gaze. It crosses the threshold between the visible and the invisible—the realm of vision—and unsettles the layers of perception.
Color adjusts the balance of intensity and stillness, of height and depth, of presence and retreat. It gives tone and rhythm to the music of line and form. The emotional vibration concealed between forms emerges through color, and the subtle space between things becomes the temperature of feeling.
Color does not explain; it flows and leads. It holds the echo of emotion, the moment just before it turns into memory. Within the crossings of line, form, and hue, I do not seek to depict emotion. I let it occur on its own. Color thinks, speaks, breathes—and through the eyes, reconstitutes the world anew.