Ji Yoon Park is a mixed media textile artist, she currently lives and works in London.
She seeks existential breath through working with drawing and process-based art. Her work strikes a balance between the dualities of emptiness and fullness, something and nothing, desire and freedom.
After graduating with a BA degree in Fiber Art at EWHA women's university in South Korea, she worked in an interior textiles company as a director.
RE-ESTABLISH // Duet for ONE
shift from self-alienation to self-liberation through meditative practice.
This project investigates how understanding the philosophy of emptiness influences the way of being in my life. True emptiness is not a nihilistic nothingness that diminishes the dream and its forms, but a fruitful emptiness that makes the richness and fullness of life possible. It may lead to an understanding that without emptiness there can be no fullness.
I work with drawing, repetitive mark-making and a process-based exploration of materials. I use my work on meditative practice to demonstrate spiritual experience through the repetitive process of filling and emptying, unfurling the potential of the surface by experimenting with a texture through deconstruction techniques. This is a way of embracing emptiness as a significant stage of/in the circle of life as well as questioning the purpose of existence.
