Seoul Special Issue

Sim Hee Jung, a lively force in Seoul's art scene, harmoniously blends tradition and innovation. As an artist, she navigates the city's evolving trends, embracing diverse mediums from ceramics to painting and book publishing. Sim's Art Story Zari gallery reflects her commitment to fostering relationships, exploring human connections and space. Her...

I do graphic design and illustration for commercial. I draw something and make books as an artist. I've been drawing with colored pencils so far. I want to draw a story someday those who go on their journey in a precarious but tough way.

The nature flows green inside my light-off heart, leaving some mark behind, and walking along with that mark, I am in the landscape at some point.

어느 날, 문득 소라의 껍데기를 그리고 싶어졌다. 왜 갑자기 이 소재에 끌리게 되었을까.

Winter is bitterly cold, but the snowy landscape is beautiful and warm. Perfect reality is either too dry or overly energized to suffocate. Which one is real? Dreams and reality became more and more mixed and ambiguous within me, and by the time I got lost, it became a painting.

I paint my inner landscape. My paintings are visual representations of human emotions and the unconscious mind, rather than real images. I think my work is similar to dreams in that it uses unknown meanings and symbols, the story starts abruptly, and there is no logical flow.

I focus on portraying individuals as a set of distinct parts. By using layered or fragmented images, I express the human form.

'Ash'는 내면에 대한 기록으로 두려움, 공허, 불안, 우울의 가시적인 형상입니다. 누구의 내면이던지 크고 작은 불안과 우울, 두려움이 있을 것입니다. '애쉬'는 숨기고 싶었던 불안하고 우울한 저의 모습이 투영되어 사람의 형상을 하게 되었습니다. 애쉬의 주변에 살아 숨 쉬는 모든 것들은 살아가는 동안 나의 내면에 다시 채워지는 것들 입니다. 아름다운 것들로 다시 가꾸면 우리의 내면은 기꺼이 아름다워 집니다. '애쉬'는 그런 내면에 대한 이야기입니다....