Sung Hwa Kim, a Brooklyn-based artist originally from Seoul, creates paintings that explore the concept of time through the lens of traditional Korean white porcelain jars. These vessels symbolize cyclical transitions and provoke existential reflections. The artist uses evocative colors to portray the shifts between urban and pastoral settings, day and night, life and death. His work presents a blend of serenity and vibrancy, capturing fleeting moments in a dreamlike stillness, while encouraging viewers to contemplate the delicate balance between ephemeral experiences and enduring realities.
I invite viewers to contemplate the fragile balance between what fades and what endures. I approach this exploration as one might write a haiku: capturing fleeting, poetic moments of change.
The colors I use are intentionally evocative, marking shifts from urban to pastoral, from day to night, from life to death.
Through these colors, I craft a landscape where contrasting forces converge: nature's serenity meets the pulse of the city.
For Kim, collisions of time, place, and emotion inspire a meditative journey, one that unearths the delicate webs that bind the tangible and the transcendent.
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