雪後景色 2

Choi consumes her canvas with the numerous textures and dyes of the denim, shrewdly analyzing and coding it as her individual brushstrokes, to combine these diverse components with a collection of her own memories to reconstruct her immediate surroundings. Manipulating the depth of field and composition in After the Snow 2 (Lot 1387), she shrewdly devises a 'X' composition to guide all vision from upwards to down to meander towards the centre, stretch out to the corners of the painting, to open our eyes upwards again to the breathtaking view of the exhilarating panorama of cool blue sea and refreshing winter sky of Busan. Choi's aesthetic vision is clear and every detail is decisive and premeditated; an optical illusion is supported by the darker tones of the buildings on the two sides of the canvas which deliberately congests and corners our perception into the centre; and in subtle logical yet natural procedure, the cityscape of minute buildings, diffuses our attention into the horizontal view, liberating our eye to absorb the lighter, cooler denims, which then is coyly characterized as a fading perception of its far distance. To instill an aura of sentimentality of the weather and nostalgia of the humble houses, against in rugged industrial buildings, she softens the square angles, motion and dynamism of her denim buildings with cool yet wet white trails of snow on the road and on roof top prompting a striking poetic and sensual language, to overall heighten the emotion in this common episode into epic heroism.