TREE THOUGHT
Mikyung Kim


“That tall and glanderous tree, which I did not even know the name of, seems to have been engraved deep inside my heart like some kind of symbol thereafter, like coordinates of my life. I photographed such trees and printed them so that they are all black. These are memories and pain that are not revealed in colors, and a certain absence that always clearly exists, even if we are not aware. It is everything that cannot be revealed, and their implication. Implications like the internal organs of life. Like a being that is embracing everything.” _Mikyung Kim

Mikyung Kim’s ‘TREE THOUGHT’ contains the awe of the artist facing trees that are standing as they are. Like the artist’s expression of “exposed life’s internal organs”, the trees extend like blood vessels, sprouting and firmly keeping their place. The artist choses a tree encountered at any given time and space, photographs it, recalls it in the dark in the dark room, and carves it onto photo paper. The artist then renames each tree, giving it new meaning, and the tree is reborn into a special being. The composition of ‘TREE THOUGHT’ resounds the flow of nature as the artist envisions it, evoking a sense as if one is strolling through the forest.


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Limited Edition, 100 copies
2018
27.7 × 35.4cm
66 pages
Printed Soft Cover
ISBN 978-89-97605-32-3

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