▲ Miss Kim 1997, 캔버스에 유화, 72.7×60㎝(Miss Kim 1997, Oil on canvas, 72.7×60㎝)

Drawing a picture is almost the same instance of dreaming a new and fresh dream. To arrange a proper object to be placed at an appropriate position to become transformed into an essential, aesthetic value; the object of painting would become my own self and also it becomes a fragment of my lost dream.

▲ Miss Kim 1997, 종이에 수채화, 56×38㎝(Miss Kim 1997, Watercolor on paper, 56×38㎝)

The dull and dried wooden box, white wrapping cloth, faded kettle with impression of an old relic, emptied wine bottle, and those minor objects being in outside of containers, including such as gravel, cherry_tomato, egg, and the color_faded picture...

▲ 여인 좌상 1977, 캔버스에 유화, 131×131㎝(Sitting Girl 1977, Oil on Canvas, 131×131㎝)

I was one day tempted to fill out the abandoned, good for nothing wooden box with wine. But, immediately after I found the bottle was emptied. I(ARTIST KOO CHA SOONG,具滋勝,서양화가 구자승,구자승 작가,구자승 화백,구자승 교수,KOO CHA SOONG)also wanted to wrap gently wet gravels with a white wrapping cloth.

△Koo Cha-Soong | The Artist's Note