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When photography became common through the camera and it became meaningless to "reproduce" visible objects, Cézanne "expressed" what photography could not do on the canvas.

For me, work puts meaning and value on the process of carefully and delicately expressing the emotions and thoughts I felt looking at the world on the canvas with my own colors, dots, lines, and faces, rather than 'reproducing' the world as it appears. In the process, the limits of thinking gradually disappear, and the value of imagination, which is impossible in reality, is maximized. I think the world is composed of dots, lines, and faces. At a small level, a person who seems far from everyday life is seen as a dot, the boundary line is seen as a line, and when he raises his head, the shape of a slowly flowing cloud is expressed as a face. Furthermore, in an infinite universe, each planet such as Earth is seen as a single dot. It is working on 'expressing' this gaze as 'points, lines, and faces' in the work, composing it, and arranging it formatively. 

A small apple representing post-impressionism in the late 19th century inspired numerous artists at the time and greatly influenced the development of 20th century modernism. As time passed, in the modern society of the 21st century, the Internet and a kind of portable computer-level smartphone became popular, and the limit of borders virtually disappeared. Furthermore, humanity is dreaming of pioneering to Mars beyond the moon as the stage, away from Earth, the cradle of mankind. As such, the individual 'I' as an artist is living in this wave of changes that are unimaginable in the past. Using the legacy of our human art history as the root of my work, I want to experience and learn today's modern society marked with change and innovation, and combine it in my work to further develop.
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