My work is intended to create an emotional and interpretive response in the viewer’s mind. Images are ambiguous and hence create different responses in each viewer. Rainbows swim, colors fly and motion stretches and grow and tease before the viewers eyes. The viewer is pulled in to confront their own psychological interpretation. Symmetry and breaking symmetry, is used in my painting to create tension by providing simultaneous reinterpretation of motifs.

Life Story

My paintings are an ongoing endeavor describing the emotions and challenges and eventual successes growing up in S Korea in the turmoil after the Korean war and with a handicap.

Nature

I am inspired by fractals in nature; the aesthetically mathematical order and physics of nature creates a perfect harmony in scale, symmetry and fractals creating proportion and drama in the paintings. I am also inspired by the human mind’s ability to pull interpretation from abstract shapes.

While Sailing

This series of paintings is inspired by my sailing experience that I combine with my interest in fractals.
The ocean surface waves are fractals, little waves on larger waves on larger waves. Some paintings, e.g. Sailing 1, have waves in the design.
When preparing a painting I allow the boat movement to influence the lines. I place pen on paper and draw a basic shape while the boat movement causes my arm to wander. If sailing on calm seas down wind the lines are gentle and curved. If going into the wind and waves the lines are much more dynamic with sudden explosive changes. The contrast between the natural fractals and the mathematical fractals creates a tension in the painting as the focus of the viewer moves around the painting.