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"Abstract" - Joohyun Pyune

"Anything that makes me think and move my thoughts, from the present to other times, is a subject of my digital images.  I love to make a story out of images I have collected.  Over time, I learned the great value of sharing our spiritual intimacy with others.  I feel deeply connected when people share their secret grief or sorrow with me.  My works is about encompassing general human emotions multiple layered in all of us, such as agony, rancor and grief.

In dealing with these hidden sides of human feelings, I try to capture the concept of solitude, pain, and marginality and present them as not merely unfortunate individual problems of the present or the past, but the conditions of our existence.  I have come to the point of understanding Jean Sartre’s Existentialism and yes, I agree with Sartre that Sysiphus is happy. After all, we each actively shape our lives, even contributing to some of the burdens we carry, like the boulder that Sysiphus keeps pushing uphill.

By submerging deeper, beyond the emotions of the heart, I come into contactwith an inexplicable feeling of melancholy and my works quietly speak outfor me.  I find comfort in nature, and images of nature represent my feelingof melancholy toward the ambivalence of absurd and joy of our lives.  The melancholic beauty of our nature is a major theme in my works and I amthrilled that my medium is perfect to visualize the ambiguity of life experience.

The printing technique I use is dye-sublimation.  Dye sublimation is similar to traditional printmaking, in terms of image capturing.  Since theimage is processed through heat, transferring digital images becomesfriendlier and less manipulated by computers, and the final images areintentionally and unintentionally created by the artist's manual act."