Deposited urban space time presented by trees - Kim MiHyang (GalleryDOS)

Modern city generally the place for human culture and it is a space with large population density. Development of science and technology naturally advanced into urban expansion, and this transformed into the standardized aspect of the reinforced construction being built with concrete and glass. Artist Park Jin Hee admires the city, a magnificent flow in civilization through the eyes of a traveler. The familiarity displayed by usual urban sceneries though the areas act as different causes for the views of the artist to remain in the uncivilized primitive life. Additionally, it is discovered that trees which grow by accommodating the surrounding environment each hold different faces. The contradiction between familiarity and unfamiliarity in the city is what stimulates the artist. The concentration time of finding newness from accustomed familiarity arouses the existence of 'trees', which is recognized as a common noun.

Trees hold the life span ranging from hundreds to thousands of years. Trees, implanted amongst the order in the city, is the existence which enables human beings to experience themselves as a part of the nature and grows for a long time. To the artist, this undistinguished living organism is accepted as the medium which takes in the city as the base of life and expectorate it intactly. Amongst them, epidermis is the part which directly endures through the many years and surrounds the living organism. The complex and diverse elements of trees such as the types, geographical features, and climates cause influence on the epidermis, the external figure of the form. The rough and simple cracks which form as a result of growth of the trees reminds one of the deeply caved wrinkles that form with time. These wrinkles reflect on the period of space time. In other words, trees possess unfixed and infinite texture. It is due to the fact that it existed till now and will continuously change in the future. In the same way, the artist aims to express the flow of space time created by the surface of trees, in which the past is deposited, through the artwork.
Park Jin Hee includes the natural patterns and change in color attained from the epidermis of the trees in pictures. Additionally, a series of images taken in places all around while leaving time interval are spread and pieced together in form of a panorama. The space structure held by trees become disassembled by the artist and recombinant as a plane. Here, the artist applies the montage technique through the use of computer program to induce natural manipulation and create an unrealistic phenomenon which resembles reality. Collision exists between familiarity and unfamiliarity in the distortion of space time dissolved within the texture of trees. This mismatches the perception of subjects who view this artwork.
We can discover the unnaturalness of space time in the hidden side of lyrical image which seems to not contain any emphasis or exaggeration. In the same way, to Park Jin Hee, the narrow borderline between truth and fabrication granted by the medium called pictures is an appropriate attribute in bringing out 'unfamiliar familiarity', which becomes the basis of the operation. The 'picture of trees', which is completed while creating a delicate barrier, is a unique method of approach of the artist who remembers the familiar city in an unfamiliar manner, resembling a page from a personal diary.

Trees are materials which inspire fresh impression into the usual sceneries that are displayed in different cities. Space time of a specific city is implied in the epidermis of the trees created through nature and time, and the artist is reminded of the image of the city where trees were tall standing. The artwork is completed through multiple stages, ranging from the selection of targets and collection of images to the artificial operation process through the application of montage technique and panorama form.