My journey to capture the energy

My journey to capture the energy

​Recently I started to paint a 22 x 30 inch watercolor painting. The theme of this painting is 'alive'.
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My journey to capture the energy of things continues and has been going on for over ten years since my debut in 2011. The title of my first exhibition in Germany was 'Live, Alive'.
My obsession with the energy of life began with my search for the beauty and essence of things.

In the end, I concluded that everything alive in the world is beautiful. So I focused on the energy that living, living objects have. Recently, my husband was walking around the campus of our school and saw a beautiful bird and took a picture of it. It was a beautiful bird with fluorescent yellow feathers on its belly. This beautiful bird did not fly away and just crouched in one place. I think it was probably before it passed away. I have seen birds like this before. This bird also showed brilliant beauty while it was alive. If the energy that an object has disappeared, would it be possible to perfectly express the beauty of an object with only light or shadow? I think objects have their own energy and as an artist, I want to convey this accurately. In this sense, my subject returned to fish.

I remember that the first exhibition I drew was two fish. I like to see the endless movement of fish as they move in the water. They never stop and continue to create beautiful curves. I like to depict fish because their various movements in the water are like seeing their energy with their eyes.

And every time I try to draw with their movements, I think about what a true aesthetic approach is. Rather, it is because of these concerns and explorations that I am not afraid of living in the AI ​​generation as an artist.

This painting I started will be filled with many kinds of Betta fish to fit a large-sized watercolor painting. I will try to portray their various movements and life. I will be absorbed in drawing this fish for a while. I don't know what this fish painting can bring me, but I am grateful that after starting this painting, I have no other thoughts than this painting. And in a few days, I expect to upload my finished work through this post.