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Day dream
72" X 58"
Oil on Canvas |
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Conversation
75" X 58"
Mylar and Oil on canvas
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Sun Ok Chun
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I am interested in boxes-- both in the way they contain things
and the way
they set things free. More then a 'horror vacuui' or fear of
open spaces for me
it means the embrace of space as an area that is philosophically
full and
empty simultaneously.
In Antoine de Saint - Exupery's The Little Prince a pilot tries
to draw a
sheep for the Little Prince, who in turn rejects the first
three attempts as he
is not happy with the sheep's appearance. Finally, the pilot
draws a box,
explaining that the sheep is inside. "That is exactly the way
I wanted it!" said
the Little Prince. "Do you think that this sheep witll have
a great deal of
grass?" Then he stepped into the box world of the sheep, and
through the
windows in the box, he looked at the outside world.
Like the Little Prince, I too need a box that will contain
a "sheep". A box
that will shelter my dreams and ideas.
Paintings:
I think of my art works as metaphoric boxes in which I keep
a glimpse of
realty as I see it. I am interested in the relationship between
the enclosed
space and the space beyond its boundaries. So my work is often
comprised of
antithetic elements that describe that relationship, such as
geometry and the free
gesture. My paintings set up a dialogue between rational straight
lines and
atmospheric areas of color with floating, gestural markings. |
