Mizuma & Kips

Namjoo Kim

mirrorscape

Mirror-scape is a journey on a contorted road with bumps and craters. The bumps could seem as high as mountains and the pits as deep as valleys. The journey called life appears quite dramatic. The dialogue between ideality and reality is not always simultaneously corresponding.

 

Her inner voice starts whispering about positive and negative traits that make a soul wandering in the mirror.  Painting on the mirror is telling an inner story within the reflection of the real world. That is the main motive of my work.

 

The landscape in the mirror is stained with the emotion of moments and unrecognized desires. The sentiment is revealed without hesitation with an unconscious touch. I unconsciously leave traces with sliding inks on a clear mirror, erasing the smudges that spread, and traces my hand as if closing my eyes to find the shape. Like drawing a nostalgic existence in the clouds, I begin to search for hidden objects.

 

Our life is a whole basket of paradoxes. What you can interpret through the mirror-scape is what you can think limitlessly. On the surface of the mirror? In the mirror? Or beyond your imagination…  Answers remain to the individual viewer that depends on what you focus to gaze on.