JINYOUNG LEE

Organic Landscape Exhibition view Organic Landscape There’s nothing completely new in this world. Things are just found accidently or inevitably.  My work starts from the thing I couldn’t recognize though it had been initially there. Encountering those things, my work begins. I start from the photograph as medium and develops it. During the making process, I try to keep flexible response to what’s happening in front of me, anticipating a possibility of something new which might be achieved through experimenting various materials and using them in expanded context. My work is evolved through the close interaction between artistic “imagination” and the “method” newly discovered during the experimenting processes, and I would like to share what was discovered and what moved me during the process with the viewers. My recent works have the images of scenes of nature, such as plants, flowers, sky, and clouds as subject matter and they go through several stages and become indistinct and ambiguous. To hold and capture delicate light and mood of nature, I work in the following method. I complete making photograph using transparent ambrotype glass plate negative and then put multiple layers of acrylic plates, transparent printing papers and hanji (Korean traditional paper) on top of them, which create a kind of organic space inside the work. In recent work, using silk-organza and transparent mesh and employing the sewing, I explored making an organic space beneath the surface where there are blurry boundaries. They hover between photography and painting and appear to have ambiguous ambient of a shape that’s vague and opaque. It reveals itself as Organic Landscape which holds light and is filled with iveliness; the flat surface becomes animateds if life is infused into it. Artist’s Note