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undertone of personal biography, addressing the issue of   highlights and shadows to create a dimensional space. Such a
         self through symbolism to express her own ideology. What   contrast shows a fantastic debate between geometry and nature.
         results are gripping images rife with human emotion; complex   Artispectrum Vol. 13 noted that dramatic compositions, and
         forms and compositions are configured in forms of pure   a multiplicity of visual textures, Mae Jeon creates computer-
         expressionism; at times rhythmic and other times fearlessly   manipulated images whose subject matter is an icon of organic
         exposing the rawest elements of the human emotion.   beauty - the flower. Surreal and stylish, Jeon’s images incorporate
         A writer from NY Arts Magazine noted that Mae Jeon’s works   the sensuality of the flower, as captured by artists such as Georgia
         draw attention from a realistic rose to a canvas of digital shapes,   O’Keefe and Imogen Cunningham, into fantastical abstractions
         creating a debate between geometry and nature "When first   within whimsically synthetic environments. In an era of the digital
         looking at Mae Jeon's piece  the first glance may be on the realistic   world, Jeon’s appreciation of the colorful floral splendor found
         rose on the bottom of the canvas which then draws your attention   in wildlife through a technological language is contemporarily
         to the rest of the canvas: digital shapes of greys and pinks with   appropriate. (Petru Rusu, Editor).


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