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SHIN-HYE PARK


                     Lives and works in Ansan, South Korea
                                                w w w.absolutear ts.com /shinhyepark

                                                                 An Attempt to Perceive: Nature, Life and Humanity. An Artistic expres-
                                                                 sion is for me an act of confirming what I have perceived, namely
                                                                 what I have to know while seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling
                                                                 endlessly in the midst of daily life. What is especially important in my
                                                                 work is how I have progressed to know nature. Nature is a starting
                                                                 point of understanding about life, humanity, and something called
                                                                 living as one experiences. It is also a place for an empirical, not ideo-
                                                                 logical, understanding of God. Equilibrium is a divine state. Thus, God
                                                                 must have created the universe in his attributes. Now we conceive
                                                                 equilibrium as broken and are feeling a pain from the wound. Then
                                                                 an artistic act is, at least for me, a reflection upon such a reality and
                                                                 embodies a meaning for healing.

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                       LANDSCAPE, 2004 LITHOGRAPHY 40X40 CM /16X16 IN.
               LANDSCAPE, 2004 MIXED MEDIA 40X40 CM /16X16 IN. X 4 PIECES.      
                LANDSCAPE, 2004 OIL ON CANVAS 40X40 CM /16X16 IN. X 4 PIECES.



































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