Consolation in Devotion to a Lonely Crowd!
(Flowers of Reassurance)
Forests embrace birds and rivers hold fish. The bird adapts to the forest and the fish acclimates to the river. To know the bird, you should know the forest and to know the fish, you should know the river. The same correlation applies to the painter and the painting. Painting represents the artist and you should know the artist if you want to know about the painting. It isn’t easy for a warm-hearted artist to paint a cold-felt painting and a cold-hearted artist to paint a warm-felt painting. Artist Younghee Lee likes flowers. The flowers give pleasure and happiness to everyone without separating them by their appearance. Heaven doesn’t have any prejudice. It drops down rain and dew, and comes upon light and wind in every life, in all the places in the world. It doesn’t discriminate among those by their fortune, ideology, region or even profession. That’s the spirit of heaven. The artist’s flower resembles the heaven. It embraces both of your side and my side. After all, it becomes the sunlight that brightens the mind of the audience. Whenever you see the paintings, you indulge yourself in sweet rest like spring breeze.
(Silent Bliss)
The artist’s flower provides a moment of bliss without notion. Modern era is flooded with irritation and urgency. People find motion sickness from the hustle of civilization and want to get away from it. Happiness is not the place of “being in disorder”, but that of “being in tranquility”. If you look at the artist’s flowers, you cannot stop dreaming of finding serenity among flowers. Flowers are splendid. However, from the flowers that have mirror image of artist who dislikes putting on airs, they cherish humbleness. She expands on the depth and width of the work by being simple, honest and rough- as opposed to hiding behind a falsified image comprised of hollow, fluffy glitter. She evokes a contrast of emotions: happiness concurrent with a feeling of deposition from the long years by creating differing layers and textures utilizing repeated brushstrokes and knife strokes. Good water is pure and excellent artwork is not gaudy. The artist’s flower doesn’t have dizzy fatigue disturbing eyes and ears. It resembles the primitive moon and stars, but not the city’s brilliant lights. So, when you stand in front of the flowers you can get away from all the fuss those ties up your body and mind. You can feel the happiness in tranquility.
(Rest and Consolation)
Speed fastens us, but composure releases us. True happiness is not abundance of speed, but contemporary people always live in being chased. So, the artist prepared chairs that we can rest and meditate in a flower garden. Existing alone, chairs may not serve much of a purpose. Their uses are fulfilled when they are served as supporting and comforting fatigued others. Chairs can be a mediator for toilsome people to encourage and communicate each other. Contemporary people feel the solitude in the crowd and are insecure and lonesome even to a degree of successful people have depression. Artist Younghee Lee offers them some rest with chairs. Rest is the end of the previous break and the beginning of new departure: The rest place for retrospect and prospect. When you sit on the artist’s chair, surrounding becomes quiet and you put down everything. You realize that happiness exists right next to you, but not far away. The artist’s chair is the one existence close to you looking at the same direction, but not the disputing one looking at the opposite direction. There isn’t more comfort than sitting silently by your side. The chairs in the flower garden indicate that “pause and rest” is not the failure, but the true happiness.
(Every moment was flowers)
Flowers can be seen when you go down. You can never see them the days when you climb higher and higher for desire and success. Flowers are happiness. They are joy and hope and song and dream. When you rest, unload heavy burden and lay down greed, flowers smile quietly off the roadside. There were the flowers even when you go up. When we have snow, rain and wind, the flowers are always there. They neither give up, nor complain when they are not visited.
They naturally flower, grow, cry and smile by themselves. Every moment was flowers. If you look at them on the artist’s chair, every single flower is brought to light. The images of flowers being completely filled illustrate the happiness that has been felt every day. She represents the flow of time through the gradually changing sizes of these flower images. Happiness is only not the target, but an ongoing process that is constantly propelled forwards.
