At one time, things used to be ordinary or special to someone. But those gave away to new things or vanished as time goes on. Antique has own history and period or personal story. A manual typewriter, old luggage and worn out shelf and chairs are changing unlike the beginning as telling a trace of time.
The artist collects those old things with own memory and story on canvas and creates another story.
Antique as a material is a good medium to look back passed daily life. Things which have been with someone become getting new value at present. Still life on canvas in my view plays the role as leading to the world of conception.
- Jaehyug Choi