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Sue Im Koo: My spirit-eye is passing into the evening glow.

Sue Im Koo: My spirit-eye is passing into the evening glow.

SKU: 2022-aoa97.

$2,600.00

Medium: fabrics on Canvas, Mixed Media with Acrylic, Oil, papers. Size: 24(W) x 24(H).  A diary I wrote while watching the setting sun. In my work, I depict abstract landscapes that represent my emotions and memories. My primary source of inspiration is my diaries that I have kept since I was a teenager. I write about emotional and traumatic events, as well as everyday observations. In recent years my work refers to other experiences and ideas, but it continues to be directly inspired by my writing.

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In my work I depict abstract landscapes that represent my emotions and memories. My primary source of inspiration is my diaries that I have kept since I was a teenager. I write about emotional and traumatic events, as well as everyday observations. There is one episode in my past that is particularly influential. When I was 17, the Jong-Ro neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea where I grew up was destroyed in accordance with our government?s modernization plan. When I saw bulldozers break down houses one by one, I felt that the significance of my teenage years was being torn down. Decades later as an adult I began to make art based on passages from my teenage diary as a way of coming to terms with the loss of my childhood home. In recent years my work refers to other experiences and ideas, but it continues to be directly inspired by my writing. I interpret the moments recorded in the pages of my diary in dreamlike scenes that allude to the natural world. Rather than literal depictions of nature, my paintings are like interior or spiritual landscapes, representing thoughts, feelings, and memories. Each work is based on an excerpt from my diary, with titles taken directly from its pages. My process is not about creating something aesthetically pleasing, but rather a means of reconstructing and interpreting memories. In my work I seek to find something that I could never reach, recover the past that has been lost, and capture moments from the present and the future. My landscapes are, in a sense, the story and the journey of my life.

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