Day 4247: Lee Hyun Joung, Taxes and GH#1

  

"Good and Evil": collage, photos, inks, digital.

 

  

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Lee Hyun Joung’s Paintings

“Contemplation” (2024), 195 x 130 x 3.5 centimeters.

In Ridge Lines, Lee Hyun Joung navigates along the roving meeting point of two adjoining bodies. The artist melds the artistic and aesthetic traditions of her native Korea with those of her adopted home in Paris, rendering intricately bisected landscapes where the two converge.

“Collision” (2024), 100 x 130 x 3.5 centimeters

Opening next month at Galerie Sept in Brussels, Lee’s solo exhibition comprises several new paintings made with handmade Hanji paper and ink from Korean pigments and fish glue. The artist often works on the floor, drawing each thin, sweeping line in a sort of meditative trance. “Instead of flattening the paper, I let the random embossed pattern show through. I use my brush to create line patterns to emphasize or obstruct the paper’s natural relief. Through the movements of my body, I create a rhythm, without a structured plan,” she told critic Isabelle de Maison Rouge in advance of the show.

“Contemplation Vert” (2024), 147 x 80 x 3.5 centimeters

Lee’s works capture this repetitive motion as they heave toward the central crest. Her paintings have grown in complexity in recent years, expanding on the mountain-like landscapes to puncture terrains with deep, hidden valleys. The vertical “Chemins de Vie” works, for example,  follow a winding path that loops and turns back on itself to create pockets along the ridge. Likening each line to “a day in the life of a human,” the artist grasps at the connection between time and space where seemingly disparate experiences join together.

 

“Chemin Bleu” (2024), 130 x 100 x 3.5 centimeters

Left: “Chemins de Vie 2” (2024), 150 x 50 x 3.5 centimeters. 

Right: “Chemins de Vie 1” (2024), 150 x 50 x 3.5 centimeters

 

The artist’s studio

“Mémoire du Vent Bojagi” (2024), 195 x 130 x 3.5 centimeters

The artist working in her studio

 Find more from Lee from Galerie Sept.

Woe is me!

I admit it, I am a master procrastinator!     

 And, even though I have been working to do better ... getting in gear to do taxes is always a challenge. Every year I procrastinate, putting off doing what I hate! I get distracted by jobs I wouldn't normally tackle, just to avoid doing taxes.

It's not like I am a big roller! I'm just a former little "Mom and No Pop" advertising agency ...with just a few clients and very little on the ledger. But to sit and round up totals on a tax worksheet ...

is comparable to fingernails on a blackboard!

But about now, I realize I must deliver.
So today and now tomorrow are my designated days of ugh ... taxes! 

Almost done, unless ...

 

I get distracted.
Again ...

 

 

 

 

A better distraction ...

 

 

 Grandhunk #1, Jordan is in town for a few days, and came by Thursday ...

 

 

 

 

 

We were both hungry, especially for ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Always so consistently good, and great company and conversations. But, all too soon it was time for him to go to Fullerton to meet friends. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

A 4+ minute video, Rolling Snail, here

 

 

 

 

  

Just because ...

 

 

Amhearst Pigeon

 

 

Friday's Smiles ...