Work in 2018

AbstractMemories a18 09
<Memories II>   2018   Oil on canvas   130.3 x 162.2 (cm)

<Memories I and II> are pictures of the present state of  "I" as a question of existence. I painted several pictures what present "I" made up of many events and experiences of the past has been perceived through the current sensory organs and appears in my mind now. The journey of life is a process where countless moments of joy or incredibly painful moments cross from trivial everyday emotions to indescribable emotions. Looking back the past, it was a time of joy that graduation, and children, and a time of great peace and joy in the faith, but the economic crisis and the frustration of the human being, the sorrow for father's death, fear of physical illness and death, and other various painful times.... Those were times of pain that were sometimes unbearable. But the potion of 'time' dilutes and fades all such of the past Memories. It is the essence of Memories that they come into the mind and 'how it appears' in now, and It gives a clue to understand the state of presence. These pictures <Memories I and II>‘ the variations of lines and color faces like gentle waves tell the calm and peaceful state of present mind. As time goes by, the once so glad and sad feelings are now faded emotions, a series of events at that times are combined and squashed and now are calmly expressed hue of horizontal composition and low saturation. The unspecified changes of the horizontal lines are old faded things that flashed and covered with waves of memory. It expresses a subtle mind state that repeats the flow of memory along the river of memory and disappears, buried, and floats up and down.