Loose Thread

Loose Thread

May 2021 | Edinburgh

Da Hyoung Choi

Blue Poem

Tongyeong Hongdo in South Korea, where i used to live, is a beautiful tourist destination where many divers come to dive and at the same time, marine police or fishers often drown in rescue. Also, there are many migrant workers living near the Suwon river where I live now. They suffer discrimination because they are not Korean. There was an incident in which one of the migrant workers committed a murder. This river is also a beautiful tourist destination now. These murders and the deaths of workers are quickly forgotten because it is a trivial event, not a big one such as a war. I want to expose these events, which people think are trivial, that the landscape is hiding in the water, with painting. Especially, I want to show layers of hidden scenery in textured I archived photographs of the incident in articles, the Internet, and images of similar events from fiction, such as novels and films, and build up layers on canvas. After the process, The layer of images stacked with the paint is dug out with a knife. The more I made the texture with the knife, the more images that were piled up behind the last image were revealed. Texture can show the accumulation of time that occurred in the landscape.

Painting.