psychotherapy & contemporary arts magazine
“I am always fascinated with how each of us has a subjective view of reality, which is sensed through a biological lens that has evolved over millions of years. The question of, How do we find a sense of objective reality? Also, how much free will do we really have?” – Jason Herr
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“My own time-related work is also made under the effect of the pandemic… It was a personal crisis for me, I started to fight that feeling by drawing a flower a day as a mark of time.”
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“I don’t make art as a form of escape – or as entertainment, but rather it is my way of really being in the world.”
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“I understood that I am a person who strongly resists a pre-understanding of the world… paintings can always be the clue for this whole process.”
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“Complexity and convolution can often lead to a painting’s downfall but I tend to push things in that direction despite this… I often find that the more a composition teeters towards total collapse, the more exciting it becomes.”
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“My art has truly been helpful in understanding my identity as someone from the Korean diaspora. And before this exploration through my work, it was an area that I was afraid to tap into.”
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“Sometimes I’ll stumble upon an object or a scene and know in that moment that I am going to need to paint it as soon as possible. Other days, I definitely have to dig it up and suck it up…”
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“More and more we know that the whole system is not going in the right direction… But sometimes such a serious subject deserves a little derision and humor.”
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“I’ve been slowly working on a series focusing on folks reaching enlightenment in Walmart… The subjects are like the Buddhist image of the lotus which rises from muddy dirty waters without a speck of dust adhering to it as it proceeds to bloom pristine.”
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“I am always fascinated with how each of us has a subjective view of reality, which is sensed through a biological lens that has evolved over millions of years. The question of, how do we find a sense of objective reality? Also, how much free will do we really have?”
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“Human imperfection is a prime mover of people’s lives… The world is built upon imperfections. However, imperfections shouldn’t be considered as nature’s errors that should be corrected, but the essence of life that moves it forward.”
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“I’m not a massive fan of the idea of “expression” in art. Increasingly, I side with Stravinsky when he said “music [or in this case art] is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all”.
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