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A Topography of Mind ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ์ง€ํ˜•๋„


๋ฌธ์ง€์˜, ๋งˆ์Œ-3, 31.5x31.5cm, Acrylic on canvas, 2021

Regardless of the time, people have been horrified by lots of wars and irresistible natural disasters. Especially, artists are vulnerable to them and their work of art gests affected by them easily. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed lots of people, triggering severe social and economic disruption around the world, which makes us pessimistic about our future. It is interesting that people in the past also had the mood of pessimism in the time of war and pandemic. A Spanish painter and printmaker, Francisco de Goya, often referred to as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns, made lots of anti-war drawings and paintings including the dark, pessimistic series of Black paintings suggesting that he feared for his countryโ€™s fate and his own mental and physical health. Living in isolation, he applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house reflecting a bleak outlook on personal, social and political levels, which tells us that wars and disasters tend to make artists turn inwards and introspect. Like Goya, artist Jiyoung Moon has been making her work of art on a daily basis as writing a diary, using various colors and traditional Korean patterns as a means of expressing the visual imagery of her mind and healing herself. After all, it is not an exaggeration to say that the purpose of art making is the artistโ€™s survival.


Jiyoung Moon has been teaching children art for 30 years and says that she learns art from them, which explains why her artwork looks pure and simple. Her artwork is classified into three categories. For her work of art, she dyes on Korean paper, reflecting the state of her mind. And she makes silk-screen paintings, using images of traditional Korean patterns. She also uses acrylic paints, making layers of them as if they were a topography of her mind. For one of her artworks, she installed transparent acrylic boxes filled with colored papers folded in order, expressing the harmony among various colors, patterns and the afterimages of them reflected in the shadow. When dying on Korean papers, she hangs them on the clothes line and lets the paints drop down to make natural shapes and patterns that remind us of images of nature like colors of the four seasons. Without depicting the images of nature representationally, she makes a great landscape painting with the accidental stains of the paints. Through her paintings, she tells us to feel the pleasure that various colors give us, comforting us living in the horror of pandemic. As a person who feels closer to children than adults and builds the world of her artwork by learning from them, she might have wanted to make the fence of her inner world harder in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic to protect herself. And the traditional Korean patterns that she uses for her silk-screen paintings can be a great source to be free from feeling isolated while being locked in her inner world. Borrowing the lotus pattern that symbolizes the purity and the ten creatures of longevity, of which we all share the good vibe, she might have felt relieved from the fear of the pandemic and wanted us to feel united.


Jiyoung Moon doesnโ€™t seem to have the powerful brushstroke that the British painter, Cecily Brown has, however, she reminds me of the artist, Etel Adnan who filled her small canvases with warm and lovely colors until death. Her small paintings are all about the traces of her life that make a great epic, which gives us a great lesson that everyday of our lives is a meaningful blessing.


Yoonkyung Kim


์˜ˆ๋‚˜ ์ง€๊ธˆ์ด๋‚˜ ์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ ์žฌ๋‚œ์€ ๋งŽ์€ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋“ค์„ ๊ณตํฌ๋กœ ๋ชฐ์•„ ๋„ฃ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๋“ค์˜ ์ž‘์—…์— ๋งŽ์€ ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ๋ผ์ณ ์™”๋‹ค. ์ง€๊ธˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜ ์žฌ์•™ ์—ญ์‹œ ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์— ๋–จ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ์œ„๋“œ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ง€ํ–ฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„ ์ผ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋ ค๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฌด์Œํ•œ ์งˆ๋ณ‘์˜ ๋ณ€์ด์™€ ํŒŒ๊ธ‰๋ ฅ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๋‚™๊ด€ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์‹œ๋Œ€ ์œ ๊ฐ์€ ์‹ค์€ ์–ด๋Š ๋•Œ๋‚˜ ์กด์žฌํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ŠคํŽ˜์ธ์˜ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ํ”„๋ž€์‹œ์Šค ๊ณ ์•ผ(Francisco Goya)๋Š” ๊ถ์ • ํ™”๊ฐ€๋กœ ์ผํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ์€ ์ƒ‰์ฑ„๋กœ ์™•์‹ค ์ผ๊ฐ€์™€ ๊ท€์กฑ์„ ๊ทธ๋ ธ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ง๋…„์— ํ™€๋กœ ๊ท€๊ฐ€ ๋จน์€ ์ฑ„ ์™ธ๋”ด ์ง‘์˜ ๋ฒฝ์— ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ๊ฒผ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ถ”์ •๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒ€์€ ํšŒํ™”(Black paintings) ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉด ์•Œ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ์ŠคํŽ˜์ธ ๋‚ด์ „์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ์ด๋ฉฐ ์šฐ์šธํ•œ ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋Š” ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ณตํฌ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์‹œ์„ ์ด ์—ฌ์ง€ ์—†์ด ๋‹ด๊ฒจ ์žˆ์–ด ๊ทธ๋ฅผ ๋ฏธ์ˆ ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์˜ ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์„ ์ฐจ์ง€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ „์Ÿ์ด๋‚˜ ์žฌ๋‚œ์€ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๋”์šฑ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ์นจ์ž ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋งŽ์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์นฉ๊ฑฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๊ณ  ํ™”๊ฐ€๋“ค์„ ๋”์šฑ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ, ๊ทธ ๋„ค๋ชจ๋‚œ ์†Œ์šฐ์ฃผ ์†์œผ๋กœ ์ˆจ์–ด ๋“ค๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠน์ •ํ•œ ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ „ํ†ต ๋ฌธ์–‘์˜ ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์‹ฌ์ƒ์„ ๊ทธ๋ ค ๋‚ด๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€ ๋ฌธ์ง€์˜ ๋˜ํ•œ ํž˜๋“  ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•˜๋ฃจ์˜ ์ผ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋กํ•˜๋“ฏ ์ž‘์—…ํ•ด ์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ์ง€๋ฐฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ณผ ์•„ํ””์„ ์น˜์œ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ  ๋ณด๋ฉด ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์˜ ๋ชฉ์ ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค ์ƒ์กด๊ณผ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์„ ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค.


์•„์ด๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ต๊ฐ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋งŽ์€ ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์„ ๋ฐฐ์šด๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ง€์˜ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” 30๋…„ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ๋ฏธ์ˆ  ๊ต์œก์— ์ข…์‚ฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์˜ค๋žซ๋™์•ˆ ๋‚ด๊ณต์„ ์Œ“์•„ ์™”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ์ธ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋Š” ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์•„์ด์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ง‘๊ณ  ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•œ ํŠน์ง•์„ ๊ฐ–๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋กœ ํ•œ์ง€์— ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ์ƒ‰๋“ค์„ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด๋Š” ์—ผ์ƒ‰ ์ž‘์—…, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „ํ†ต ๋ฌธ์–‘์ด ๊ฐ–๋Š” ์ƒ์„œ๋กœ์šด ์˜๋ฏธ๋“ค์— ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์—ผ์›์„ ํˆฌ์˜์‹œ์ผœ ๋งŒ๋“  ์‹คํฌ ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ์ž‘์—…, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ์ง€์ธต์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋“ฏ ๋ฌผ๊ฐ์„ ์ผœ์ผœ์ด ์Œ“์•„ ์˜ฌ๋ ค ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚ธ ์•„ํฌ๋ฆด ํšŒํ™” ์ž‘์—… ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์••์ถ•๋˜๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค์ฑ„๋กœ์šด ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ํŒจํ„ด์— ๋ฐ˜์˜๋œ ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ์ง€ํ˜•๋„์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•œ ์•„ํฌ๋ฆด ์ƒ์ž์— ๋…ธ๋ž‘, ๋ถ„ํ™, ์ดˆ๋ก, ํŒŒ๋ž‘ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์ƒ‰์ƒ์˜ ์ข…์ด๋ฅผ ์ผ์ •ํ•œ ํŒจํ„ด์œผ๋กœ ์ ‘์–ด ๋„ฃ์–ด ์ „์‹œํ•œ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ƒ‰์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚ด๋Š” ์กฐํ™”, ์ ‘ํžŒ ์ข…์ด๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚ด๋Š” ์ผ์ •ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ทœ์น™ํ•œ ์ฃผ๋ฆ„์˜ ํŒจํ„ด์ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ์งˆ์„œ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž์—์„œ ์˜ค๋Š” ์ž”์ƒ์˜ ์—ฌ์šด์„ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํ†ค์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด๋Š” ์ž‘์—…์€ ๋”์šฑ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด๋ฐ ์—ผ์ƒ‰ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ ์•ˆ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘๋ ฅ์— ์˜ํ•ด ๋–จ์–ด์ง€๋ฉฐ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚ด๋Š” ์šฐ์—ฐ์  ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ์ ์ ์ด ๋ชจ์ด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ํฉ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฐ ์ž๊ตญ์€ ๋งˆ์น˜ ํ•œ ํญ์˜ ํ’๊ฒฝํ™”์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋ด„, ์—ฌ๋ฆ„, ๊ฐ€์„, ๊ฒจ์šธ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ์ž์—ฐ์„ ๋งˆ๊ตฌ ์—ฐ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๋ ค ์• ์“ฐ์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ์–ป์–ด ๋‚ผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ƒ‰๋“ค์ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ์พŒ๊ฐ์„ ์•„์ด์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ•œ๊ป ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ ๋งˆ์น˜ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋Š๊ปด ๋ณด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค. ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ๋Š๋ผ๊ฒŒ ๋˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ๊ณผ ๊ณตํฌ๊ฐ€ ์œ ๋‚œํžˆ ํž˜๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฌธ์ง€์˜ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋กœ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚ด๋Š” ์„ธ๊ณ„์˜ ์งˆ์„œ์™€ ์กฐํ™”๋Š” ๋ถ„๋ช… ์œ„๋กœ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋œ๋‹ค. ์–ด๋ฅธ์˜ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์•„์ด๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ๊ต๊ฐ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋…ํŠนํ•œ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ•ด ์˜จ ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์‹œ๊ฐ๊ฐ ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์œผ๋กœ ๋ชฐ์•„ ๋„ฃ๋Š” ์ฝ”๋กœ๋‚˜์™€ ๊ฐ์ข… ๊ฐ€์งœ ๋‰ด์Šค์˜ ์„ธ์ƒ์€ ๊ทธ๋…€๋กœ ํ•˜์—ฌ๊ธˆ ๋”์šฑ ๋” ์ž์‹ ๋งŒ์˜ ์šธํƒ€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์„ธ์šฐ๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๊ทธ ์†์—์„œ ์˜ค๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๊ฐ์„ ํ•ด์†Œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ํƒํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „ํ†ต ๋ฌธ์–‘ ์‹คํฌ ์Šคํฌ๋ฆฐ ์ž‘์—…์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ์—ˆ์„๊นŒ ์œ ์ถ”ํ•ด ๋ณธ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „ํ†ต ๋ฌธ์–‘์ด ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์˜๋ฏธ์— ์ฃผ๋ชฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ทธ๋…€์—๊ฒŒ ์ง„์ฐฝ ์†์—์„œ ์ž๋ผ๋„ ๋”๋Ÿฝํ˜€ ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์—ฐ๊ฝƒ์˜ ์ˆœ์ˆ˜ํ•จ, ํ–‰๋ณต๊ณผ ๊ธฐ์จ์„ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ญ์žฅ์ƒ์ด๋‚˜ ํ™”์กฐ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ƒ์„œ๋กœ์›€์ด ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์‹œ๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์— ์™€ ๋‹ฟ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋Š” ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž‘์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„๊นŒ? ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ „ํ†ต ๋ฌธ์–‘์ด ์ „ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ํ•ดํ•™๊ณผ ๋ณดํŽธ์  ์ •์„œ์—์„œ ๊ณต๋™์ฒด ์˜์‹๊ณผ ์—ฐ๋Œ€๊ฐ ๋“ฑ์„ ๋Š๋ผ๋ฉฐ ์ž์‹ ์„ ์˜ํ™” โ€˜์–ด๋ฐ”์›ƒ ์–ด ๋ณด์ด(About a Boy)โ€™์—์„œ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•˜๋Š” ํ™€๋กœ ๋–  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ํ•จ๊ป˜์ธ ์„ฌ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์—ฌ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„๊นŒ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ด ๋ณธ๋‹ค.


๋ฌธ์ง€์˜ ์ž‘๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ๋Š” ํž˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ œ์Šค์ฒ˜๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์„ธ์‹ค๋ฆฌ ๋ธŒ๋ผ์šด(Cecily Brown)๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฉด๋ชจ๋Š” ์—†์„์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด์ง€๋งŒ ์ฃฝ์„ ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊พธ์ค€ํžˆ ์†Œ์†Œํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์ž‘์—…์„ ์ด์–ด ๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋˜ ์—ํ…” ์•„๋“œ๋‚œ(Etel Adnan)๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ™”๊ฐ€์˜ ์ž์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋Š๊ปด ์ง„๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๋‚ด๋Š” ์ž‘์€ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ๋“ค, ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•˜๋ฃจ์˜ ์ผ๊ธฐ์™€๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ทธ ํ”์ ๋“ค์ด ๋ชจ์—ฌ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ์„œ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์ง„๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด, ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์„ ๋–จ์น˜๋ฉฐ ํ•˜๋ฃจํ•˜๋ฃจ ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋‚˜๋‚ ๋“ค์ด ์–ด์ฉŒ๋ฉด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด๋„ ๋‹น์—ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์—ฌ๊ฒผ๋˜, ์ง„์งœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ํ–‰๋ณต์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ด ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.


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