Water not just makes a passive response but also actively replies and offers its perspective and insight. Masaru Emoto, a scholar of alterative medicine renowned for the mechanics of water waves says that water responds differently to the given words, characters or musical rhythms, respectively though its unique crystal and changes in wave, which is an amazing and mysterious fact.
According to the study of Dr. Masaru, water is able to prove its cognitive abilities by taking a different crystal shape that is distinctly differentiated in response to a different set of words, including strength and weakness, co-existence and competition, taste of mom's recipe and instant food and materials and money. Water, in particular, is able to recognize truths that are not recognizable by modern people buried in the drama of possession and consumption. It is not exaggerating to say that the cognitive abilities of water surpass those of humans! It is water that governs humans instead of the other way around. Water will make us look back on ourselves unless we do so by ourselves, which has always been true without fail. It is always water that saves us, not the other way around. Water secures 70% of its existence even while humans continue to pollute rivers and oceans. Genesis 2:1 says "the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters".
In-ho Kim has persistently depicted water or more specifically the surface of water in his works of art over the last few years. The surface water he has captured has the urban life decorated with splendid neon lights cast upon it. Colors of blue, red and yellow are rocking in accordance with the order set by the waves of water surface. While following the order of the water surface, the city of night is repeating the process of dispersion and gathering of all sorts of crooked irregularities. The drawing of the water surface with a city used as materials brings attractive and unanticipated abstract paintings into reality. However, the visual-perceptual attractiveness is gaining further meaningful insight as it guides us to the epistemological questions.
The water surface drawings by In-ho Kim reproduce the dazzling and colorful life styles of our time just like a mirror. The waves of water surface conduct self-recognition amid silence. The problem is ourselves who recognize that recognition. Are we able to recognize the recognition of water surface? We should be able to, according to Dr. Masaru because that is how we will be able to straighten out the culture of division and hatred prevalent in our time and to catch even the clue to set in order our ecosystem bound for destruction .
The sight of In-ho Kim leads us to the beauty that includes questions and irresistible visual-perceptual attractiveness, which is to become a pivotal axis of aesthetic experiences. I hope his pictures will continue to bring unanticipated pleasure to us in the future although he is not a professional photographer.
SHIMSANGYONG
