Yi Myung Soo

When I look back on my childhood, most of the activities involved being in harmony with nature, and it was a happy thing to reminisce about such play. I began to create my own forest by reminiscing and reinterpreting the trees and mountains I could easily see around me when I was young. Currently, I am interested in studying spaces that do not exist based on my past experiences, as I have a love for trees and forests that can be easily seen around me.
The image is mainly created from the traces of burning Korean paper with incense, and the work is completed by overlapping several layers. The soft feeling of sunlight penetrating into the room through window prints as a child and the afterimage of my childhood gaze seen through a hole in the window paper became the motif of my work. I thought about how to express the feeling of reflection and projection and used Korean paper and incense as materials.
The familiar scene of burning fat with incense, a ancestral rite product, was the impetus for choosing the material, and the work, which uses several layers of Korean paper burned with incense, tells the story of how an individual's life is completed with multiple layers of 'relationships'.