Light and shadows/ Tropical resort

The oeuvre of paintings Light and Shadows is inspired by landscape scenes from Jeju island in
Korea. The observed tropical landscape is filled with intense colors and the vastness of pine
forest on black stone ground. I came up with the idea to explore the observed landscape in the
absence of color. By reducing the intense green, the color of the landscape is replaced with
gray. The grayness of the landscape becomes a monochrome observation but not a boring one.
Monochrome becomes an intense contrast and it plays a role in composition with the painted
houses in color as well as the contrast of the white space that suggests the outline of the
landscape. The absence of expected color sharpens the shapes. Grayness becomes duality. It
becomes a play between day and night, light and shadow, flickering and static. It becomes for
me mystical and dreamy.