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๋ฌดํ•œ์˜ ์„  (็ฆช)

The zen of Infinity


SUH JEONG MIN


์ผ์‹œ : 2024.09.11 - 10.14

์žฅ์†Œ : ๋ฌด์šฐ์ˆ˜๊ฐค๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ / ์ธ์‚ฌ๋™๊ธธ 19-2  ์™€๋‹ด๋นŒ๋”ฉ 3,4F

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“๋…ธ๋™์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘๋œ ๋ช…์ƒ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰”



 ๋…ธ๋™์€ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ƒ์กด์˜ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด๊ธฐ ์ด์ „์— ์‹ ์„ฑํ•œ ์‚ถ์˜ ๊ฐ€์น˜์ด๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์€ ์ผ์ข…์˜ ๋…ธ๋™๊ณผ๋„ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ–‰์œ„์ด๋ฉฐ, ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์€ ๋…ธ๋™์ด๋ผ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์‚ถ์— ์ •์‹ ์  ํ’์š”๋กœ์›€๊ณผ ์‹œ๊ฐ์  ๊ฐ๋™์„ ์ฃผ์–ด ๊ด€๋žŒ๊ฐ๊ณผ ์†Œํ†ตํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋Œ€๋‹ค์ˆ˜์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๋…ธ๋™์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ๋ณด์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒฝ์ œํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ˆ„๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„ํ•˜๊ฒ ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋…ธ๋™์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ์€ ‘๋•€’์ด๋ฉฐ ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ํ™œ๋™์„ ํ†ตํ•œ ‘๋•€’์€ ๋ช…์ƒ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ํ™˜์›๋œ๋‹ค. ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ง„ํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์‹œ๋Œ€์— ์†๋์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋‹ฌ๋˜๋Š” ์•„๋‚ ๋กœ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฐ์„ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฐจ๊ฐ€์šด ํ˜„๋Œ€์‚ฌํšŒ์— ์˜จ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋„ฃ๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค.


 ‘๊ธ€’์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋งค์ฒด๋Š” ์˜ค๋ž˜์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์†Œํ†ต์˜ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ˆ๋กœ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋™์–‘์—์„œ ์„œ์˜ˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๊ณผ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ, ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์™€ ํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ž‡๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ต์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ปค๋‹ค๋ž€ ํ™”๋ฉด์— ๊ฒน๊ฒน์ด ์Œ“์ธ ๊ธ€๊ณผ ๊ธ€์ด ์ด๋ฃจ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ฌด๊ฒŒ๊ฐ€ ์†Œ๋ฆฌ์˜ ํฐ ์šธ๋ฆผ์ด ๋˜์–ด ๊ณต๋ช…(ๅ…ฑ้ณด)ํ•˜๊ณ , ํ•„๋ฒ•๊ณผ ์šด์œจ, ๋ฆฌ๋“ฌ๊ณผ ํ•„๋ ฅ์€ ๊ธฐ์šด์ƒ๋™(ๆฐฃ้Ÿป็”Ÿๅ‹•)์„ ์ž์•„๋‚ด๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๋ฐฑ์ด ์ฃผ๋Š” ์—ฌ์šด์€ ์—ฌ์œ ๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๊ณ , ๋ฌผ์„ฑ(็‰ฉๆ€ง) ๋‚ด๋ฉด์— ๊ธฐ๋ก๋œ ์„œ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ช…์ƒ์„ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผํ‚จ๋‹ค.

 

 20์„ธ๊ธฐ ๊ทผํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ์‚ฌ์—์„œ ์žญ์Šจ ํด๋ก(Paul Jackson Pollock), ๋งˆํฌ ๋กœ์Šค์ฝ”(Mark Rothko), ์•ค๋”” ์›Œํ™€(Andy Warhol) ๋“ฑ์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ถ”์ƒํ‘œํ˜„์ฃผ์˜(Abstract Expressionism) ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์„ ์ ‘ํ•œ ๋ฐ”, ‘์ˆญ๊ณ ’, ‘๋ช…์ƒ’, ‘์ˆ˜ํ–‰’์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฐœ๋…์ด ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์„œ๋‹น ๋ฌธํ™”๋กœ ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋˜๋Š” ์œ ๊ฐ€์™€ ๋„๊ฐ€์˜ ์‚ฌ์ƒ๊ณผ ๋”๋ถˆ์–ด ์ข…๊ต์  ๊ฐœ๋…๊ณผ๋„ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ง€์ ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์•˜๋‹ค.

๋…ธ๋™์œผ๋กœ ์„œ์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋ณ€ํ™˜์‹œ์ผœ ์šฐ์—ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ์„ ์€ ๋ถˆ๊ต์˜ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์  ์˜๋ฏธ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š” ‘์„ (็ฆช)’๊ณผ ์„๋„(็Ÿณๆฟค)[1]์˜ ์ผํš๋ก (ไธ€ๅŠƒ่ซ–)์—์„œ ‘ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ทธ์Œ’์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•˜๋Š” ‘์„ (็ทš)’์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.


 ๋ถ“๊ณผ ๋จน์œผ๋กœ ์ •์‹ ์„ฑ์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ธ ์„œ์ง€[2]๋ฅผ ์ฐจ์šฉํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์€ ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์  ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ์†Œํ™˜ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ํ˜„๋Œ€์˜ ์‹œ๋Œ€์ •์‹ ๊ณผ ๊ต๊ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, ์˜ค์ฒœ ๋…„ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€์ผœ์˜จ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋ฏผ์กฑ์˜ ์ •์„œ์™€ ๋ˆ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์ง•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ‘์งˆ๊น€’๊ณผ ‘๋ถ€๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›€’์ด ํŠน์ง•์ธ ‘ํ•œ์ง€’๋ฅผ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋กœ ์„ ํƒํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

์„œ์˜ˆ๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์Šต์ž‘ ์„œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜์ง‘ํ•œ ํ›„, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณ ์œ ์˜ ๋‘๋ฃจ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ[3] ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์„ ์‘์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋ง๊ณ , ์ž๋ฅด๊ณ , ๋ถ™์ด๊ณ , ์ชผ๊ฐœ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ‘ํ•œ์ง€ ํ† ๋ง‰’์„ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค. ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ํ•œ์ง€ ํ† ๋ง‰๋“ค์˜ ๋‹จ๋ฉด์„ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค๋ณด๋ฉด, ์„œ์ง€์˜ ๊ธ€๋“ค์€ ํ˜•์ƒ์ด ๋ฐ”๋€Œ์–ด ๋จน๋น›์„ ๋จธ๊ธˆ์€ ๊ฐ€๋А๋‹ค๋ž€ ์„ ๋“ค๋งŒ ๋‚จ๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ด์™€ ๊ฐ™์ด ‘๊ธ€’์ด ‘์„ ’์œผ๋กœ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐ”๋€Œ๋Š” ์ง€์ ์—์„œ ์œ (ๆœ‰)์™€ ๋ฌด(็„ก)๋กœ ์น˜ํ™˜ํ•˜์—ฌ ํ™”๋ฉด์„ ๊ตฌ์ถ•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์ง„ ํ•œ์ง€ ์กฐ๊ฐ๋“ค์„ ์ฝœ๋ผ์ฃผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์— ๋ถ™์ด๊ณ  ์Œ“๋Š”๋‹ค.

ํ™”๋ฉด ์œ„์— ๋‚˜์ง€๋ง‰ํ•œ ๋ถ€์กฐ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์Œ“์ธ ๊ธ€๊ณผ ๊ธ€๋“ค์˜ ์ง‘ํ•ฉ์ฒด๋Š” ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๋ฌด์—‡(์ƒ๋ช…์ฒด)๋“ค์ด ์›€์ง์ด๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•œ ํ˜•์ƒ์ด ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด๋Š” ๊ณง ‘์ธ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์ž์—ฐ์ด ์†Œํ†ต์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋จ’์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•œ๋‹ค.

๋‘ฅ๊ทธ๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋ง๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋•Œ๋กœ๋Š” ํ‰ํ‰ํ•œ ๋Œ€์ง€์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ๊นŽ๊ณ  ๊ธ‹๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฃŒ์˜ ๋ฌผ์„ฑ์— ํŒŒ์žฅ๊ณผ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ์–ด๋„ฃ๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ์ง€๋ผ๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ์ „ํ†ต ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ–๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์„ฑ์— ์˜๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ถ€์—ฌํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

์„ ์กฐ๋“ค์˜ ์„œ๋‹น๋ฌธํ™”์—์„œ ํŒŒ์ƒ๋œ ์„œ์ง€๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ์ข…์ด๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ์†Œํ†ต๊ณผ ํ–‰์œ„์˜ ์ˆ˜๋‹จ์ด๋ฉฐ, ์žฌ๋ฃŒ ์ž์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ–๋Š” ๊ฐ์„ฑ์  ์ •์„œ๋ฅผ ๋‚ดํฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์„œ์ง€๋ฅผ ์Œ“์•„ ํ™”๋ฉด์˜ ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์ฑ„์šฐ๊ณ  ๋น„์šฐ๋Š”, ์ผ์ข…์˜ ๋ฌต์–ธ์ˆ˜ํ–‰(้ป˜่จ€ไฟฎ่กŒ)[4]๊ณผ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฐ˜๋ณต์ ์ธ ๋…ธ๋™ ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋ฌด์œ„์ž์—ฐ(็„ก็ˆฒ่‡ช็„ถ)์˜ ์„ (็ทš)๊ณผ ๋ถˆ๊ต์  ์˜๋ฏธ์˜ ์„ (็ฆช)์„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ๋‚ด ์ž‘์—…์˜ ์š”์ฒด์ด๋‹ค.


 ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋ฌธํ™”์™€ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์„ ์„œ์–‘์œผ๋กœ ๋ณธ ์‹œ๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ, ๋‚˜๋Š” ํ•ด์ฒด์™€ ์ž์œจ์„ฑ์„ ํŠน์ง•์œผ๋กœ ํ•˜๋Š” ํฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋ชจ๋”๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ์ปจํ…œํฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ ์•„ํŠธ, ์ฆ‰ ํ˜„๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ˆ ์ด ๋™์–‘ ์‚ฌ์ƒ ๋ฐ ์ฒ ํ•™์  ์‚ฌ์œ ์™€ ๋งž๋‹ฟ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•œ๋‹ค.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ถ”์ƒํ‘œํ˜„์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ๋Œ€ํ‘œํ•˜๋Š” ์žญ์Šจ ํด๋ก์˜ ํฅ์€ ๋‹ค์†Œ ์–ต์ง€์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šฐ๋ฉฐ, ๋งˆํฌ ๋กœ์Šค์ฝ”๊ฐ€ ์™ธํ”ผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•ด ๋ณด๋ ค๋Š” ์„œ๊ตฌ์‹ ๋ช…์ƒ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์—๋Š” ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณธ๋‹ค.


์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ •์„œ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐด ๋จน๊ณผ ํ•œ์ง€๋ฅผ ๋Š์ž„์—†์ด ๋งž๋Œ€๊ณ  ์ž‡๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ˜๋ณตํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚œ ็ทš(์„ )์—์„œ ์ž์—ฐ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ์–ด์šฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง„ ํฅ๊ณผ ์‹ ๋ช…์„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋น„์›€์œผ๋กœ์จ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜๋Š” ์—ฌ๋ฐฑ์„ ็ฆช(์„ )์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ด„์œผ๋กœ์จ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰๊ณผ ๋ช…์ƒ์˜ ๋ณธ์งˆ์„ ์„ฑ์ฐฐํ•ด ๋ณด๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค.







"Meditation Practice by labor"


Art-philosophical perspective:

The purpose of labor, I believe, should be a sacred value of life before being a means to making a living.
I believe that art, through the act of labor, can communicate the spiritual richness of human life through visual impact. While many people may perceive labor as a means to reap economic rewards, the essence of labor is

sweat, and the sweat produced by artistic activities is transformed into meditation and practice.

In this rapidly evolving digital age, I strive to breathe warmth into the coldness of modern society, which often feels detached from the analog sensibility conveyed through the fingertips.


Historical perspective:

Writing as a medium has been used as a means of communication for a long time.

In the East, there was a traditional art form called calligraphy, which served as a bridge connecting people and linking the past with the present.

The layers of writing accumulated on a large surface represent the passage of time, and their weight creates a profound resonance.

The techniques of brushwork, rhythm, and the strength of the strokes not only include the vitality of movement but also the beauty of empty space. The narratives recorded within the materiality of the writing become a form of meditation.“

Beginning with Western painting, I have observed that the sublimity, meditation, and practice found in the works of American Abstract Expressionist artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol in 20th-century modern art history resonate with our traditional literary culture and touch upon religious meanings.


Artist's perspective:

I aimed to express the line that naturally emerges by transforming labor into script, representing both the Zen (็ฆช) of Buddhist practice and the single stroke of the line (็ทš) as depicted in Shitao's work.

By adopting the writing style recorded with brush and ink, I imply that it is possible to engage with the contemporary spirit by invoking the historical values of the past.

I chose Hanji, a material known for its resilience and softness, to symbolically reveal the emotions and perseverance of our people that have endured over five thousand years of history.

Techniques and methods:

First, I collect practice sheets from calligraphers, then apply our unique scroll technique by rolling, cutting, pasting, and splitting Hanji to create small pieces.

When you closely examine the cross-sections of these Hanji pieces, the original writings disappear, leaving only thin ink lines. I captured the point where writing naturally transforms into lines, representing existence and non-existence.

I then layer these Hanji pieces onto the canvas using a collage technique.

The accumulated writings on the canvas resemble a low relief (bas-relief), creating the impression of numerous elements in motion, symbolizing the unity of humans and nature through communication.

The acts of rounding, flattening, carving, and marking are intended to imbue the material with vibrancy and vitality, while also highlighting the traditional significance of Hanji's original material from a historical perspective.

Conclusion:

The writings derived from our ancestors' Confucian culture are not merely simple paper; they are a means of communication and action, carrying the emotional and cultural essence of the material itself.

By engaging in the laborious act of stacking writings to fill and empty the space on the canvas, akin to the silent practice of Buddhism, I explore the relationship between the line of Wuwei (effortless action) and the Zen of Buddhism through the practice of art.
While the cultural and artistic focus has traditionally been on the West, I believe that contemporary art, penetrating through postmodernism, resonates with the philosophical characteristics of the East.

In this rapidly changing era, I hope to foster the sprouting of harmony between nature and humanity, promoting a relationship of mutual coexistence that can bring reconciliation to our cold and tense modern society.

While the focus of culture and art has long been centered on the West, I believe that contemporary art, which has traversed through postmodernism (with its deconstruction and autonomy), resonates with the contemplative nature of Eastern philosophy.

I perceive limitations in the Western-style meditation and practice as demonstrated by Jackson Pollock's somewhat forced exuberance and Mark Rothko's superficial attempts at expression in American Abstract Expressionism.

By repeatedly confronting and linking writings with Hanji and traditional ink, I aim to reveal lines that naturally blend excitement and the emptiness of space, which I interpret as Zen. Through this process, I seek to experience and reflect on the true essence of meditation and practice.


Appendix

Shi tao: (1642~1707) Shitao or Shi Tao was a painter and calligrapher from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. His family name was Zhu (ๆœฑ) and his given name was Ruoji (่‹ฅๆฅต). In his book "Huayu Lu" (Comments on Paintings), he wrote, "A single stroke is the foundation of all strokes and the origin of all forms. The mystery of the single stroke can only be seen in the realm of nature, hidden from the eyes of ordinary people." He also said, "Both the distant journey and the climb to great heights begin with a single step. A single stroke encompasses everything beyond heaven and earth; all brushstrokes begin and end with a single stroke.


Shu Zhi: Paper used by calligraphers to practice their writing with a brush on Hanji (Korean traditional paper).


Silence practice: A Buddhist practice where one remains silent as a form of meditation to attain enlightenment.


Roll technique: A technique involving the rolling of paper with writings on it. Our ancestors used this method to store scroll paintings, cloth (such as hemp), and other items. This technique was often based on Confucian principles, utilizing Hanji and ink for practicing calligraphy, poetry, and painting. This traditional culture continues today through calligraphy training in study rooms (Seosil).