Recalling the memories embedded in each of my paintings ㅡ recalling the process of capturing the faces of passers-by ㅡ I’ve come to the conclusion that my ongoing project’s defining feature could be characterized as ‘the Unidentified’, ‘the Nameless’, or better yet ‘the Anonymous’.

There are as many ways of seeing and understanding as there are individuals in the world. As such, the basic method I employ in the creation of my paintings is to convey my personal, thus subjective response to my subjects.

I am always on the lookout, searching to exploit the dynamic tension when representation and abstraction come into contact. And under the influence of Goethe’s color theory I use my own sensibility as a color filter, adding spontaneous but rational logic and judgment as the mixture of reason and sentiment take form on my canvas. With sentiment I have in mind, the meaning comes from Oriental philosophy - i.e. moderation, not the Kantian view of sensitivity or sensation.

The outcome of this process results in paintings, visually rich surfaces in which the exact nature of these forces - feeling / reason - is held in dynamic tension. And it is this holding of opposing forces in free, open play that provides the connectivity between my paintings and their audience.
- Artist note by Jaeyeol Han, April 2013

Courtesy of Gallery Gahoedong 60