Swollen, Guarded, and Tranquil View of the World / ๋ถ€ํ‘ผ, ๋‹ค์žกํžŒ, ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ

I was implementing Graham’s helpful suggestion when I couldn’t resist going wilder. I wanted to add hope to my rather desolate rendition of a lightening-stricken treeย (below), but I didn’t want to make it an afterthought. The contrast between the strike and new leaves had to be the main theme. And probably the leaves wouldn’t need to be prominentโ€”they just needed to be there, as “pennants”. So here they are.


๊ทธ๋ ˆ์ด์—„์˜ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์šด ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผํ•˜๋˜ ์ค‘ ๋” ๊ฒฉํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ฐธ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์“ธ์“ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋งŒ ๋ฒผ๋ฝ ๋งž์€ ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๊ทธ๋ฆผย (์•„๋ž˜) ์— ํฌ๋ง์˜ ๊ธฐ์šด์„ ๋”ํ•˜๋ ค๋˜ ์ฐธ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์‹œ๋Љ์œผ๋กœ๋งŒ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. ๋ฒผ๋ฝ๊ณผ ์ƒˆ ์žŽ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๋Œ€๋น„๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์žŽ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ๋„๋“œ๋ผ์ ธ ๋ณด์ผ ํ•„์š”๋„ ์—†์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค – ํฌ๋ง์˜ ‘๊นƒ๋ฐœ’๋กœ ์žˆ์–ด์ฃผ๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•  ํ…Œ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋ ค ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.

YK 2018.

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Flowing / ํ๋ฅด๋Š”

After a bit of walk down the river, we found a right spot to sit down. They had theirs opposite us.


ํ•œ์ฐธ์„ ๊ฐ• ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฑท๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์•‰๊ธฐ ์ข‹์€ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค. ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์ชฝ์—๋Š” ์ƒˆ๋“ค์ด ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์•‰์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

YK 2018.

Drawing โ€œTranquilโ€ / ‘๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ’ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ

Tranquil is drawn after a tree in Coe Fen. On fine afternoons, the tree stands with a glow of sunshine on its back. In the photo, you can see it is growing new twigs, that almost look like saplings, from its limb lying on the left. Surrounded with lush vegetation, it looks as though it symbolizes resilience.

In the drawing, I omitted all leaves and abstracted out the background, to focus on the form of the tree’s body. While I followed what was compelled by visual composition, I wonder how that changed the substance. To me, compared to the real-life model, the tree’s situation seems more desolateโ€”as some of you suggestedโ€”, as if the whole tree and its surroundings are burned down. Its ultimate victory, which in fact happened, is suggested only in spirit. I wonder how you feel.

I want to try another version of the tree. My challenge is to keep the spirit of hope (and perhaps the leaves) without ruining the composition. I may modify the form, but I’d like to keep the original tree’s intuitive appeal and subtlety. That’s a lot to wish for, so I would appreciate any recommendation for works to model after.


๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ‘์€ ์ฝ”ํŽœ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋ง‘์€ ์˜คํ›„๋ฉด ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ํ–‡๋ณ•์„ ํ›„๊ด‘์œผ๋กœ ์ด๊ณ  ๋น›๋‚œ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์™ผ์ชฝ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์ค„๊ธฐ์—์„œ ์ž”๊ฐ€์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ž๋ผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์„ฑํ•œ ์ˆ˜ํ’€์— ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ์‹ธ์—ฌ, ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” ๋ˆ๊ธฐ์™€ ์ƒ๋ช…๋ ฅ์˜ ์ƒ์ง•๊ฐ™์•„ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋ฆผ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ค„๊ธฐ์˜ ํ˜•ํƒœ์— ์ดˆ์ ์„ ๋งž์ถ”๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์žŽ๊ณผ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์„ ๋ชจ๋‘ ์ƒ๋žตํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ„์†Œํ™”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตฌ๋„๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ์„ ํƒ์ด์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋‚ด์šฉ์—๋„ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ผ์นœ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™๋‹ค. ์›๋ž˜ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์— ๋น„ํ•ด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์˜ ๋‚˜๋ฌด๋Š” – ๋…์ž๋“ค ์ค‘์—์„œ๋„ ์ง€์ ํ–ˆ๋“ฏ์ด – ๋” ์“ธ์“ธํ•ด ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋ฌด์™€ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ํƒ€๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์•„ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์Šน๋ฆฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์€ ํฌ๋ฏธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์‚ฌ๋  ๋ฟ์ด๋‹ค. ๋…์ž๋“ค์€ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋А๋ผ์‹œ๋Š”์ง€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜๋‹ค.

๋‚˜๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค. ํฌ๋ง์˜ ๊ธฐ์šด(๊ณผ ์ดํŒŒ๋ฆฌ๋“ค)์„ ์‚ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ๊ตฌ๋„๋ฅผ ์–ด์ง€๋Ÿฝํžˆ์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๊ณผ์ œ๋‹ค. ํ˜•ํƒœ๋ฅผ ๋ณ€ํ˜•ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์›๋ž˜ ๋‚˜๋ฌด์˜ ์ง๊ด€์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋ฌ˜ํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ๋„ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ ค์šด ๊ณผ์ œ์ด๋‹ˆ๋งŒํผ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•  ๋งŒํ•œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉด ์ถ”์ฒœ ๋ถ€ํƒ๋“œ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค.

Painting & photo by YK, 2018

Tranquil / ๊ณ ์š”ํ•œ

YK 2018.