Recent watercolor painting: Beauty a refuge from counterfeit façade.

Recent watercolor painting: Beauty a refuge from counterfeit façade.

​The watercolor painting I'm currently focusing on is a painting on paper measuring 18 x 24 inches. The title of this painting is "Beauty a refuge from counterfeit façade". My philosophy and thoughts on the role and importance of art in a world literally filled with hypocrisy, pretense, and numerous scams and fake news are contained in this piece of paper. Because this painting contains my reflections and worries in my artistic life, I spent three weeks thinking about it and creating it as if I were sculpting.

It is now almost complete. This painting literally reveals the truth in a distorted reality and shows that there is true beauty that shines more and more beautifully.

A long time ago, I had a dream about the angel on the left. This dream is one I had before the pandemic. In my dream, an angel with a snake's tail was looking in the mirror. The angel reflected in the mirror is beautiful and bright. But it looks like he's hiding something. Just as people only see objects reflected in a mirror, they see fragmentary appearances rather than the essence of objects. Therefore, people cannot see the angel's tail. Only they believe that the angel in the mirror is real. This is an example of a distorted appearance.

To this dream, I added a picture of the Altamira mural to the picture on the right. I believe that in a world full of distortions, lies, and hypocrisy, there is true beauty and goodness, like a bright star or a candle that shines splendidly. And this beauty ultimately puts the hypocritical snake's tail to shame. I didn't just try to express it fantastically to highlight the hypocritical side of the snake's tail. And I paid more attention to the mural on the right, which I had in mind the most and wanted to highlight. Because I needed a lot of energy while drawing this picture, I couldn't continue blogging.

​However, I am truly grateful and happy to finally share this process.
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Drawing a picture is like thinking. It is like a process of reflecting, realizing, meditating, and further trying to discover a principle. I believe that painting is the materialization of these invisible thoughts.

​And when I see the results of my work materializing this inherent energy, I feel a very strong sense of accomplishment. And there are many times when pictures teach me things I did not see or realize. Every time that happens, I get the strong feeling of seeing a sparkling star shining alone in a pitch-black world. This is why I paint.