Love & Faith, 2005 Chinese ink and color on paper - Screen type 133 x 94cm
Seo paints Oriental painting with Chinese ink and color on paper. However, she doesn't stay in the old and traditional way of painting; she invents her own way of contemporary Oriental painting. By using traditional medium such as Chinese ink and paper, she paints landscape painting described by graceful lines, voluminous feelings and the beauty of space. In addition to this, she paints human character which has face of herself and puts this human figure into everywhere in the painting like between trees or on the rocks. The human figure looks like a mountain wizard from an ancient story, and it is actually herself. Seo is playing and enjoying surroundings around her in the painting like a real mountain wizard who lives in the deep in the mountain. The face expression of hers is exaggerated in the painting with a big mouth showing many teeth and a big face. Such way of expressive representation shows how fun is an idyllic life. The paintings of Seo, therefore, show that Seo becomes a wizard of mountain and enjoys landscape and an idyllic life without any worries or troubles.
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