STATEMENT

I love colors, and I love playing with them. While walking on the street, when I find colors that are well matched in one's outfit or in a store window I get very happy. It sometimes even makes me hyper. The color combinations that harmonize with one another are so very pleasant to our eyes. When I paint, the happiest and the most exciting moment is when I create those "perfect" color combinations. This gives me energy and motivation to move on my work.

To me, color is the most essential element that can represent the subject matter I want to describe. In the series for my show, "Memories of Italy," I abstracted my personal experiences, which go with specific objects or people in my memory through a semester in Rome. Each of the seven paintings has ambiguous meanings in its composition. This ambiguity is also present in the use of colors in each painting. Some of the colors chosen were reflected from a real object or experience in Rome, but at the same time they may also have been chosen purely for the atmosphere they bring out.

Here is the clearest explanation of why I enjoy drawing and painting so much: I am fascinated by the fact that as ambiguity becomes present in a work, my ability of expression becomes even stronger.

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