Color is a category of visual experience including hue, value and chroma. Human responds to any color spontaneously, however, it is difficult to say the exact massage of a color. Thus, it can be said that the fact which human reacts to color is a common point when seeing a color.
My work is to ‘draw with colors'. When drawing is to represent something, I am to represent sentiment using colors. Emotional evocative power of color enables evocation of specific emotion by affecting person's feeling as color could become independent from other elements of pictures and operate individually. Due to this effect I can express my feelings with colors and the colors of my work arouse sensitive and emotional reaction to viewers through color experience. In other words, being independent from actuality of an object, color itself can be used as main material of a picture and vest import on canvas. I try to evoke emotion with representation of fresh feeling which make viewers pleasant and cheerful and to expand positive feelings to the surroundings.
The arrangement of color, to transmit fresh feeling through emotional evocative power of color, that is, coloration is visualizes under three rules. Firstly, I start with color arrangement which is based on general meanings of color. The relation of colors, not each color, is crucial in this step since the effect of the main color which is the basis of the work is determined by second and third sub-color. Secondly, it is visual balancing. It is inevitable for me to be aware of actual vision as the ultimate purpose of my work is color experience. Also, since there are so many tones of each color following hue, value and chroma in color system, I have to respond visually and adjust constantly. Lastly, it is limitation of the number of colors. Coloration is done with minimum number of colors as simple as it can be for clear result. A few elements other than color are added to this arrangement of colors which are reflecting surface and reserved surface. These play the role of maximizing color experience.
The arrangement of colors from above process goes through several steps of techniques when applied to the canvas and each techniques show expressive features. Putting those in timely order, first is arbitrary subject which applies to the step of choosing the subject. Simply being used as supplying partitions for colors, the meaning of subject itself is not important and it can be selected variously. Subjects that appear in my works are classified into ones with peculiar coloration, ordinary ones that draw no attention and geometric ones. Second is flattened form which applies to the step of transferring a subject to canvas. To fulfill the role of supplying partition for colors, a subject is flattened to an outlined figure at the specific point of view and composed with three methods which are reiteration, array and symbolization. Third is even surface which applies to the step of filling each color unit. Using pigments to color the canvas, I try to eliminate the materiality of pigment as much as possible since the matiere can reduce the effect of colors. For this purpose, I brought in stencil technique from printing.
To conclude, my work began from the interest in colors and it can be said as an attempt to awaken specific emotions which can be included in the category of fresh feeling by inducing specific color experience from represented sentiment which is series of color arrangement.
