Artist's Statement
Life is a ‘crossover’.
My ink painting art is also ‘crossing over’. Coming from the distant past, I stay in this moment of the present and cross over to the future again. Now here, in my breath, my whole being dwells. The present moment is my existence staying in the present. It only exists here in our lives. To the poet, it exists as the solitary language of poetry, and to the musician, it exists as the mysterious trembling of the strings. I exist as a line and a dot with eternity in my paintings. I am present in a never-ending journey along the dot-to-dot road, repeating crossing from moment to moment.
There are things that have not been shown in concrete form because they remain only in my imagination. My existence dwells in the present moment, but desperately desires a deeper and expanded spiritual dimension. Revealing them in sharp black ink on my white paper! This is the ultimate goal of my art work.
The subtle world of black embraces everything in this world and implies a deeper and invisible world as an abstraction and metaphor for all beings. The beauty of Zen Art towards eternity gives birth to a new life. My existence dwells in that deep solitude in Zen (禪) Art wrapped in the scent of black ink.
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