'Resilience & Determination' has been selected on the 2024 National Watercolor Society Member online exhibition.Resilience & Determination' has been selected the 2024 National Watercolor Society Member online exhibition.
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Multicultural Night in the elementary school!This year, we will be preparing a booth to present at a multicultural night held at my child's school with the theme of Korea. Yesterday I registered and started looking for a topic to introduce. First of all, food is a topic that is culturally familiar and easily accessible to the public. And history, clothing, language, art, tourism, sports, entertainment, etc. can be good topics. In this sense, I have extracted content to introduce mainly into several categories. It's very exciting to introduce this course. I plan to create this content with children whenever possible.
The act of concretizing imagination or thoughts and creating them into images.-The classical philosophers said this. I never think without fantasy. This means that thinking requires materials. -Imagination is needed to create images. Imagination is an ability that is distinct from concepts and is explained as the ability to materialize thoughts and make a concept appear as an image. “For example, I can conceptualize freedom. We can also explain what freedom is conceptually. But showing freedom is very difficult. To show you freedom, you will have to draw. I would have to compose a scene. Then I can help you imagine the freedom in that materialization, in that scene. Therefore, we must think of imagination as an ability. The mental ability to describe objects in producing images. And what we want to show is that there is a certain kind of imagination.” (The Architectural Imagination (Excerpted by The Architectural Imagination: An Introduction)" Note: When I draw, people ask me how I can draw what I imagine in my head. The answer to this is right here. In order to concretize a concept, it is necessary to concretize the imagined image. This is the process of materialization. To do this, identify the properties and locations of each material, compare them, and understand a single concept. These materials will then be refined and rearranged to fit the concept we are presenting. And if this comes within the framework of one perception, it can be made into something new. Back to the fish!While preparing for this open call 'Surround Water', I came up with various ideas. However, as he was preparing the painting, he felt something frustrating in a corner of his mind. In most cases like this, you have to freely draw in the direction your heart demands. As always, in cases like this, I come back to the fish.
When I first arrived on Long Island, I thought the state itself looked like a fish. And for the first exhibition, I drew three fish series like the one above. But my fish sales went very well. The gallery owner recommended drawing more of these fish. However, my stubbornness as an artist ultimately led to the stopping of the three fish series. As time passed, I realized that this was not stubbornness in a good direction. As always, it is important to always listen to the opinions of those around you, that is, listen well and be humble. I realized this lesson too late and started drawing fish again. Contrary to my wishes, my fish paintings were always popular. I looked like a painter selling fish on Long Island. Looking back, my hometown was Jeju Island, an island facing the sea on all sides, and Kobe, Japan, where I spent my childhood, was also a port on an island surrounding the sea. And this place where I completely moved is also an island surrounded by the sea on three sides. Living so close to the sea, I feel the vitality and freedom of the sea and the rough sound of the waves. I drew pictures with this kind of energy. In this sense, I changed the theme of this exhibition to fish. I don't know how good the results my fish will be, but I'm going to try again with this fish topic. Art makes invisible visible!!As I personally participate in many competitions and also involve my students in competitions, I find myself thinking about the drawings I prepare for competitions.
Preparing for various national and international competitions is definitely helpful to artists. This is because when you are immersed in your own world and drawing, you may discover your own weaknesses that you might otherwise miss, or you may become motivated by looking at other artists' paintings. This type of challenge clearly has the same benefits whether you pass or fail. I know this advantage very well, I am excited when I pass, as if I've received a medal, but I don't get discouraged easily when I don't pass. The problem is that not trying has worse consequences than failing. In particular, children's art contests have no entry fee. This means that children can very easily have their works judged, participate in competitions together, and have a great opportunity to upgrade themselves by preparing for the competition. For example, last year I encouraged my students to participate in the ‘Save the Frogs!’ contest. And there were actually visible achievements. I was able to confirm that it was a great opportunity for students to think about endangered frogs while preparing for this competition. While preparing for the competition, we paid attention to the 'ribbit' sound made by frogs and explored the frog's ecology and surrounding habitats. We thought in detail about the beauty of frogs that could be expressed as a work of art, and worked together to create a picture that would change the perception of frogs in order to encourage people around them to protect frogs. As I coached and watched this process, I realized that I too had upgraded. And I continued to challenge other competitions. As I challenge my students, I find that they are no longer focused on winning or losing. The process of preparing for this itself is very meaningful, and even after the results are announced, looking at the successful drawings provides an opportunity to discover problems and make further improvements. And as I prepare for the competition, I realize that the drawings for the competition must be very attractive. Media, creativity, expression, color, etc. should be organized to be as noticeable and attractive as possible. And most importantly, you must draw a picture that fits the theme of each competition. Above is a drawing drawn by 8-year-old Victoria for a wind art contest we are currently preparing. I like this picture very much. Because this painting creatively expresses the beauty of wind power from a child's perspective. When Victoria paints, she doesn't worry about how to draw well. She knows her expressive joy and paints very boldly. As she draws her pictures, she comments on these pictures. I love hearing that explanation. And I think I really enjoy this kind of expressiveness and creativity when I draw. I don't think it's a coincidence that she won the Picasso Art Contest, an international art contest. I think it's important to teach people like Victoria, who can come up with something completely new creatively through continuous storytelling. We need to think more about how to create focus for this kind of creativity. This painting confirms once again that the painting is not an explanation based on theoretical standards, but rather an expression of one's dream. |
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