Deep breath!
A low flying, observing view of Songsik Min. Let’s try to follow the views. Artist's unique formative language of sharp colors and drastic plane division. Around when the minimal section's vacuum condition made by the lines is felt, the everyday life starts to be inferred from the story standing on the border line of imaginary and reality. And phew~, continued after the inhalation is the familiar exhalation!! Again inhale!! Color blue expressing the vastness or the high altitude, swimming pool, water. Orange allows the preserved power of the daily life to be almost spread above the open green field and above the grayish concrete of unfinished construction. The lingering feeling of the daily life is the daily life of the disappeared main character, is only the target of an unclear inference, where it is just anyone's daily life. Sometimes only an assumption can be made after a situation takes place. Follow the assumed descriptive screen, and if the sight reached extreme detail then, again exhale!!!
Flying Low.
The conversation of Songsik Min is already familiar to us. It is like a side from a city view where one bird adapted to the modernized city environment looks to find a place to land. The division of the structured lines of the screen and the features given by the organized construction of color names presents a large panoramic scene. Division of space and the bold omission of the realistic portrayal of daily life in that large scene stimulate the imagination and lurks it with small stories. The bold space composition and the small details of daily life combines to unravel all the diverse stories dreamt in and out of the boundaries of reality and the imaginary world, by the reality of a picture. Within the reality of a picture a small moving individual's small movement is captured through the large city scene made up with the division of lines. That is also the artist who drew the picture, model in front of the picture and the fishing rod left with the vanished main character, read as a descriptive scene given by the silence always caused after an incident occurs. The silence of a finished incident is quite as the vacuum packed situation outside the roads of reality, and revives as the change is made to the imaginary screen through the reality. Basically, it is the moment of grafting between achieving the daily city life dreamt in the city and the dreamt daily life. The situation is turned by the circulation of reality becoming imaginary and imaginary becoming reality. There is a constant combination of the two intervening sides of reality and the imaginary when one sees the picture faraway like the high altitude in the picture and when one sees the picture nearby like seeing one's daily life. It contains the two double-sides of contemplative attitude and intervening attitude. One can simultaneously encounter the reality that will happen next to one and the distant imaginary subtle situations.
Songsik Min's is the low flying that is the appropriate flying level to be able to move around the areas of all boundaries, and is a picture that contains the sense of harmony and balance. The section of the large city scenery is the accumulated reality of an individual, the detailed expression of daily life is the gaining, losing, wishing, wanting within the city scenery, a double-sided scenery with reality and the imaginary. The reality and the imaginary is not the opposite conflict, but will be divided scenery of contemplation and intervention.
Rest
Phew…phew. Inhale then exhale. Like a bird cycling round and round to land faraway, or the stories of the dreaming city people thought by Songsik Min- Building houses, fishing, drawing, travelling, canoeing, camping, moving……. Life that sort and the means to rest. A low flying sceneries drawn with exact matters of scenes of contemplation and intervention is set before the eyes.
