Artist
Artist
Namjoo Kim
mirrorscape
Mirror-scape is a journey on a contorted road with bumps and craters. The bumps could seem as high as mountains and the pits as deep as valleys. The journey called life appears quite dramatic. The dialogue between ideality and reality is not always simultaneously corresponding.
My inner voice starts whispering about positive and negative traits that make a soul wandering in the mirror. Painting on the mirror is telling an inner story within the reflection of the real world. That is the main motive of my work.
The landscape in the mirror is stained with the emotion of moments and unrecognized desires. The sentiment is revealed without hesitation with an unconscious touch. I unconsciously leave traces with sliding inks on a clear mirror, erasing the smudges that spread, and traces my hand as if closing my eyes to find the shape. Like drawing a nostalgic existence in the clouds, I begin to search for hidden objects.
Our life is a whole basket of paradoxes. What you can interpret through the mirror-scape is what you can think limitlessly. On the surface of the mirror? In the mirror? Or beyond your imagination… Answers remain to the individual viewer that depends on what you focus to gaze on.
Mirror and I
"The mirror makes us ask fundamental questions and face ourselves." The concept of mirror work is the conflict of time. In other words, images reproduced in the past create conflicts between the inside and outside of the work, along with images that are now seen in the mirror. The confrontation of dynamic mirrors of three-dimensional space and two-dimensional static paintings goes further back, repeating Narcissus' agony of wanting to fix his own shadow reflected in the water and own it forever.
The mirror is the window of truth and the object of the spear itself is naturally the object of destruction of the wall. It is only when I intentionally move that the spear can exist as a 'frame drawing the world in my own way'. Eventually, the view outside the window serves as a mirror that reflects our lives. I paint with a feeling of looking at others beyond reality through the window of my heart and touching their hearts. If you look at me there again, you can find another true me. So I start a conversation with myself in the mirror.