I create assembled landscapes. Natural elements such as trees, grass, and water commonly encountered in daily life, along with artificial elements such as wire mesh, bricks, tiles, glass, or lines and surfaces made of pixels, are randomly assembled to express landscapes that do not exist in reality. However, sometimes ‘invisible elements’ such as fleeting emotions and moods are also used as pieces that make up the landscape. These ‘invisible elements’ are mainly embedded in the physical traces that painting uniquely possesses, such as color, surface, line, thickness of paint, and texture. The landscapes assembled from these elements may seem familiar and yet be unseen anywhere else.

The assembly of landscapes begins with a sketch of the 3D space provided by the computer. Unlike a flat plane with a single perspective, 3D programs can extract dozens of different landscapes depending on the viewing angle, zooming in or out method, even though they are assembled into a single landscape. However, ultimately, the reason for transferring the landscapes extracted through the 3D program onto the canvas plane is that ‘painterly expressions’ such as rough texture, watery brushstrokes, and distorted lines create human errors and organically connect the elements of the landscape. This connection gives the landscape an unfamiliar and novel but somehow familiar and comfortable sensation.

Therefore, the landscapes I present may seem like a perfectly fitting puzzle, but there is always something out of place and awkward, yet natural. Thus, the arbitrarily assembled landscapes on the canvas allow us to perceive the world of our time, which is filled with coexisting and contrasting elements, in a new perspective and sensation.