Artist Note — Lightness (2025)

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Lightness is the first series that composes the emotional state of “lightness” into a scene. In this world, emotions are treated not as abstract sentiments but as entities with form, color, and weight. While form remains relatively stable, color, texture, and density continuously vary according to the weight of emotion. Transparent colors and elements of low density tend to float or disperse, and the pictorial space modulates emotional placement and tension between condensation and expansion, proximity and distance.

 

These scenes resemble an inner environment rather than an external landscape. Structures such as fountains or Ferris wheels establish points where emotions linger or move, setting conditions that allow departure from stagnation and orientation toward balance. Vehicles such as boats or submarines carry light emotions, enabling the process through which emotions can move into another state. In scenes that appear as Cloud Walker, a moment emerges in which the self begins to move toward balance on its own, beyond a phase of reacting to emotion.

 

Here, lightness operates both as a state of emotion and as a condition that opens space for the self to move toward balance. Light emotions do not possess direction on their own, but they retain buoyancy and the capacity for movement. When these qualities encounter constructed structures—such as fountains, Ferris wheels, or boats—they allow emotional movement to occur and form a flow through which the self can begin to move toward balance. Rather than presenting a state of achieved balance, the scenes of Lightness remain at the moment when the buoyancy of emotion and the artist’s will converge, and movement toward balance begins.

 

Situated within The Shape of Weight, a world that interprets emotion through the concept of weight, Lightness is a visual field that first presents how light emotions form scenes and under what conditions they come into being. As subsequent series expand into phases of heaviness or distance, Lightness functions as the point of departure that initially reveals the conditions under which lightness can exist within this structure.