ARNION ART

People often refer to me as a painter, but I would like to call myself a proposer. Such as giving a suggestion to answer the question like,

“What would you want to throw out or to fill in?”

It’s a vague and odd question to ask someone,
but my theme empty jumoni will draw the viewers’ attention to answer the question thoroughly.

I started painting full jumoni, since 3 years ago.

And I progressed my paintings towards emptying the jumoni until I finished the work.

I tried to show the act of emptying by applying the processes such as sandpapering, recoloring, erasing and I kept on repeating the same processes over and over again.

The process is a metaphor of us putting what we should throw away and feeling the relief of what was compressing your chest.

Once we put things aside from our mind,
we are finally allowed to fill our jumoni with new ones with expectation and joy.

I would like to give viewers the feeling of lightness coming from emptying the jumoni, but if you would like to put in something in your own empty jumoni, it’s up to you.

What would you want to throw out or to fill in?

I want to be the proposer who asks simple questions to you through my paintings.

The shape of jumoni does not just mean a Korean bag.

If you ask me why did I paint so many colors on Jumoni, if I wanted to show the act of emptying,
filling the canvas in with colors could seem like the complete opposite of emptying one- self.

But it represents the time we spent on what we are about to throw away,
even the time we wasted, we treasured, all the recollection of memories combined.