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Small Corner Shop, Maternal Love, Play House ------- Childhood Memories

Small corner shop is the place where it is stayed and getting old at the same spot all year round for someone, and the place where it makes people remind memories with full of sunshine for others. For me, small corner shops are materials which I have been drawn for 20 years.

Small corner shop was felt like a rock or a tree for me, so that I could rely on it mentally. It was the place for communication which replaced the time, and it was enough for people to arouse analog esthetic. Small corner shops were always there in the center of the story like a drama which can bring memories begun few decades ago and make us say ¡°It was like that back then¡±, even if we do not talk about SNS, the high-tech functions of smartphone, spread of major supermarkets in the downtown where skyscrapers are lining. I was looking for small corner shops all over the place from when I started to draw a store located in Gwaneum-ri incidentally, when I worked in Toechon. At that time, I used to feel afraid that the stores I have to visit were already disappeared. And also I¡¯ve passed by the place where it was already ruined and covered up store¡¯s traces. But I¡¯ve met an old owner who ran his store for half or his life. Nowadays, I still visit shops I¡¯ve been before and feel the differences of the trees mingled with structures of the store, yards around, Jangdokdae(platform for crocks of sauces and condiments), an empty chair, bicycles, red mailbox, stone wall and telegraph poles by the flow of seasons and time. I chose colored acrylic pen to express the color of old store which is a little bit faded, and draw sharp lines neatly and gracefully. So I was unaware of the passage of time and speed, and amount of works.

I drew many stores named Cheongsong-sanghoe, Jangja-sanghoe, Yurim-sanghoe, Hapal-sanghoe, Daehwa-supermarket, Yoogu-supermarket in Naebeomni or Haenam. I mostly draw a scenery of a store at noon, not a scenery of hazy dawn or sunset. Except that, I usually draw a bustop, an image of family, a wooden horse, a flower shop, and dolls. I looked for small corner shops everywhere and drew them like going to picnic of memories. When everytime I drew them, I hoped people to remind their own memories, to feel calm and to give themselves a rest whenever they saw my works.

In the extension of my work, when I was young, mother¡¯s treasure box and love became a link of material which feels so warm and might be made in the small corner shops. That was a maternal love. My work was feels like a mother¡¯s breast. I drew a bowl of steamed rice which my mom put inside of blanket to keep it warm for family who came back home from cold outside, my mom¡¯s sewing box which mom darned a hole in a cloth with and a tablecloth which were spread with her love. Every theme I drew is the thing I can feel sympathy so that I was so happy when drawing everything such as a wooden horse made by a master craftsman skillfully and elaborately.

These days I keep thinking of my childhood hanging out in front of the small corner shop. I was smiling myself lost in thought whenever I thought of my childhood memories. I miss those time looking back myself. In the backwoods, Aeryeon-ri near Gongjeon station where it is famous for filming site of movie ¡®Peppermint¡¯, the thing I can only do is to play house. I can easily imagine the playthings such as a toy car, slap-match cards folded with foreign magazine, dice, broke down watch and so on which were in my secret box. Whenever I played house, I used a stone, a bottle cap, marbles, feather of pheasant, nuts, no-named flowers and grass as playthings. I vividly thought myself who prepared a sumptuous feast making chili power grinding a peace of brick, making rolled omelet with cut pumpkin flowers, and making spoon and chopsticks with empty nuts putting a branch, arranging and mixing them. If I had friends, maybe I would play hid-and seek, rubber band game, or shadow treading with them but I had to be used to hanging out by myself because there were no peer groups in the backwoods I used to live. So I did not treat my playthings as just toy, but treat and arrange them preciously and delicately. I kept them very preciously not to get kicked by a passerby¡¯s boots. Those experience and props started to appear in my works. I looked back my childhood when I was so pure and happy, drawing playthings which I treated carefully with dirty hands. Whenever I opened a box of memories, people in that time might come over transcending time and space.

This exhibition shows my drawing of small corner shops and playthings which made me remind of my childhood memories. I feel worried to show you odds and ends which were inside of my memory box, but I hope the things I cherished remind me again with words and writings of wise men all ages and countries.

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