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ํŒ”๊ด€ํŒ”๊ฐ ๅ…ซ่ง€ๅ…ซๆ„Ÿ


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๋ถˆํ™”๋Š” ๋ถ€์ฒ˜๋‹˜์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œ ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹ ์‹ฌ๊ณผ ๋ฌธ๋งน์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ต๋ฆฌ ์ „๋‹ฌ์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์„ค์ด ์ „ํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์˜ค๋Š˜๋‚ ๋กœ ๋น„์œ ํ•˜์ž๋ฉด ๋ถˆ๊ต ๊ฒฝ์ „์„ ์‹œ๊ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด์„ํ•œ ์‚ฝํ™”๋ณธ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ์ œ์ธ ํŒ”์ƒ๋„(ๅ…ซ็›ธๅœ–)์—ญ์‹œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ถˆํ™” ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ์„๊ฐ€๋ชจ๋‹ˆ์˜ ํƒ„์ƒ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์—ด๋ฐ˜๊นŒ์ง€ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์—ฌ๋Ÿ ์žฅ๋ฉด์€ ๋ถˆ๊ต์˜ ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์‚ฌ์ƒ์ธ ์‚ฌ์„ฑ์ œ -๊ณ ํ†ต, ๊ณ ํ†ต์˜ ์›์ธ, ๊ณ ํ†ต์˜ ์†Œ๋ฉธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์†Œ๋ฉธ์— ์ด๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ธธ-์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ ์‚ฌ์ฐฐ์—์„œ ์‹ ์•™์‹ฌ์„ ์ผ๊นจ์šฐ๊ณ  ๊ต๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

 

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ํŒ”์ƒ๋„๊ฐ€ ํŠน๋ณ„ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋А๊ปด์ง€๋Š” ์ง€์ ์€ ์ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์ฒ˜๋‹˜์˜ ์ „๊ธฐ์— ๊ทธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์ง€๊ธˆ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์‚ถ๊ณผ ๋‹ฎ์•„์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฐ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ—ˆ๋ฌดํ•จ์— ๋น ์ง€๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ถ์˜ ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„ ๋ฐฉํ™ฉํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ€๋”์€ ์–ด์ฉŒ๋‹ค ํ•œ ์ค„๊ธฐ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์„ ์–ป๋Š” ์ด ์—ฌ์ •. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋“ค ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ํŒ”์ƒ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค.

 

๋„์†”๋ž˜์˜์ƒ์€ ์„๊ฐ€๋ชจ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋„์†”์ฒœ์—์„œ ๋‚ด๋ ค์˜ค๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ, ๋งˆ์•ผ๋ถ€์ธ์˜ ํƒœ๋ชฝ์— ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ์ฝ”๋ผ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํƒ„ ํ˜ธ๋ช…๋ณด์‚ด์„ ์ „ํ†ต๋ถˆํ™” ํ˜•์‹์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ณตํ•„ํ™” ๋А๋‚Œ์œผ๋กœ ์žฌํ•ด์„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์‚ฌ์šฉ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ๋Š” ๋น„๋‹จ์— ์ฃผ์ƒ‰๊ณผ ์„๋ก์ƒ‰, ํ˜ธ๋ถ„, ๊ธˆ๋‹ˆ๋กœ ์ „ํ†ต ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์„ ์‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค.

๋น„๋žŒ๊ฐ•์ƒ์ƒ์€ ๋ฃธ๋น„๋‹ˆ ๋™์‚ฐ์—์„œ ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ์„๊ฐ€๋ชจ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ "์ฒœ์ƒ์ฒœํ•˜ ์œ ์•„๋…์กด"์„ ์™ธ์น˜๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„์„ ๋ถ€์กฐ๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž…์ฒด์ ์ธ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์„ฑ์ธ ๋‚จ์„ฑ ํ˜•ํƒœ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋™๊ทธ๋ž—๊ณ  ํ†ตํ†ตํ•œ ํ˜•ํƒœ์˜ ์•„๊ธฐ ๋ถ€์ฒ˜๋‹˜์œผ๋กœ ์ž…์ฒด๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์›ƒ๋Š” ์–ผ๊ตด์˜ ์•„๊ธฐ ๋ถ€์ฒ˜๋‹˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ฒœ์ง„ํ•จ์„ ๋‹ด์•„๋‚ด๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ๋ฌธ์œ ๊ด€์ƒ์€ ์ƒ๋กœ๋ณ‘์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์— ๋น ์ง„ ์„๊ฐ€๋ชจ๋‹ˆ์™€ ๊ตฌ์ƒ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐํ•ฉํ•ด ์‚ถ์˜ ๋ฌด์ƒํ•จ์„ ์ง์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ ์„๊ฐ€๋ชจ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ๋ณธ์—ฐ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์—ˆ๊ธฐ์— ์ฃฝ์Œ์˜ ๊ทธ๋กœํ…Œ์Šคํฌํ•จ์„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ ์ž ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์œ ์„ฑ์ถœ๊ฐ€์ƒ์€ ์ถœ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ•œ ๋ฐค, ๊ถ๊ถ์•ˆ์˜ ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ž ๋“ค๊ณ  ์„๊ฐ€๋ชจ๋‹ˆ๊ฐ€ ํƒˆ์ถœ์„ ์‹œ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ๊ทธ๋ ธ๋‹ค.๊ถ๋…€์˜ ์˜ท ์•ˆ์ชฝ์— ์ด ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ‘๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์† ๊ทธ๋ฆผ’ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฝ์ž…ํ•ด ๊ฟˆ๊ฒฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์—ฐ์ถœํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์„ค์‚ฐ์ˆ˜๋„์ƒ์€ ์„ค์‚ฐ์—์„œ ๊ณ ํ–‰ํ•˜๋Š” ์„๊ฐ€๋ชจ๋‹ˆ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๊ณ ํ–‰์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ์žฅ๋ฉด์€ ์ž‘๊ฒŒ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•˜์—ฌ ์„ค์‚ฐ์˜ ๊ด‘ํ™œํ•จ๊ณผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์˜ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•จ์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์ˆ˜ํ•˜ํ•ญ๋งˆ์ƒ์€ ํ†ต๋„์‚ฌ ํŒ”์ƒ๋„ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜ํ•ญ๋งˆ์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์›์ž‘์˜ ํฌ๊ธฐ์™€ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•, ์ƒ‰๊ฐ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ทธ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ๋งˆ๊ตฐ๋“ค ์‚ฌ์ด์— ๋Œ€์ค‘๋ฌธํ™” ์† ๋นŒ๋Ÿฐ๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋„ฃ์–ด ์œ ๋จธ์™€ ์ƒ์ง•์„ฑ์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋‹ด์•˜๋‹ค.

๋…น์›์ „๋ฒ•์ƒ์€ ๊ฐ์ƒ‰์˜ ๋น„๋‹จ ์œ„์— ๊ธˆ๋‹ˆ๋กœ ์„๊ฐ€๋ชจ๋‹ˆ์™€ ์ฃผ๋ณ€์˜ ๊ถŒ์†๋“ค์„ ๊ทธ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๊ธˆ๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋„ ์ƒ‰์ด ๋ฐ”๋ž˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋ณ€ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ด๋‘  ์†์—์„œ๋„ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์ง„๋ฆฌ์˜ ๋น›์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

์Œ๋ฆผ์—ด๋ฐ˜์ƒ์€ ์ฑ„์ƒ‰์„ ์ƒ๋žตํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐฑ์ƒ‰ ๊ฒฌ์— ๋จน์œผ๋กœ ์„ ๊ณผ ๋ฐ”๋ฆผ ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๋ฌด์š•๊ณผ ์—ด๋ฐ˜์˜ ๊ณ ์š”ํ•จ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•จ์ด๋‹ค.


ํŒ”์ƒ๋„์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿ ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ์„œ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์žฌ๋ฃŒ์™€ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ’€์–ด๋‚ด๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์€ ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๊ณ  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์—ด์–ด๋ณด๋ ค ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฅ๋ฉด๋งˆ๋‹ค ์ „ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ์ƒ์ง•๊ณผ ๋ถ„์œ„๊ธฐ์— ๋งž๋Š” ํ‘œํ˜„์„ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ผ์ด ๊ณ„์†๋œ ์—ฌ์ • ๊ฐ™์•˜๋‹ค.

์กฐ์„ ์‹œ๋Œ€ ํŒ”์ƒ๋„๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋„คํŒ”, ํ‹ฐ๋ฒณ, ์ค‘๊ตญ, ์ผ๋ณธ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๋‚˜๋ผ์˜ ๋ถˆํ™”๋„ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๋ฌธํ™”์  ์ •์„œ์™€ ํ‘œํ˜„ ๋ฐฉ์‹์˜ ์ฐจ์ด๋ฅผ ์ฒด๊ฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์žฌ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ๊ณผ์ •์€ ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ์•ˆ์—์„œ ํฅ๋ฏธ์™€ ๋ฐฐ์›€์„ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋ณด์‚ด์˜ ์˜ท ์ฃผ๋ฆ„ ํ•˜๋‚˜๊นŒ์ง€ ์ •์„ฑ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋“ค์—ฌ๋‹ค๋ณด๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ ๊ฐ™์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.


ํŒ”์ƒ๋„๋Š” ์„๊ฐ€๋ชจ๋‹ˆ์˜ ์‚ถ๊ณผ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์˜ ์—ฌ์ •์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๋ถˆ๊ต ํšŒํ™”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ณ ํ†ต์˜ ํ˜„์‹ค์„ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•œ ๋’ค ์ถœ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ๊ณ , ๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด ๋ณด๋ฆฌ์ˆ˜ ์•„๋ž˜์—์„œ ๋งˆ์™•์˜ ์œ ํ˜น์„ ์ด๊ฒจ๋‚ด๊ณ  ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ถ์—์„œ ๋งˆ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ๊ณผ ์œ ํ˜น, ์„ ํƒ๊ณผ ๊ทน๋ณต์˜ ์ƒ์ง•์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋‹ค ํŒ”์ƒ๋„๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ถœ๊ฐ€ ์ „ ์„๊ฐ€๋ชจ๋‹ˆ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์—์„œ ๋‚ด ์‚ถ์„ ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๋ถˆํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „์˜ ๋ง์„ค์ž„, ์•ˆ์ •๋œ ์ง์žฅ์„ ๋– ๋‚œ ๊ฒฐ๋‹จ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ ๊ณผ์ •์—์„œ์˜ ๋Š์ž„์—†๋Š” ๊ณ ๋‚œ๊ณผ ๋ฒˆ๋‡Œ. “์ •๋ง ์ด ๊ธธ์„ ๋๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐˆ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?” ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ์•ˆ์ด ๋Š˜ ๋งˆ์Œ์†์— ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

 

ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์–ด๋А ์ˆœ๊ฐ„, ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ์œ„์•ˆ์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. “๊ด€์„ธ์Œ๋ณด์‚ด”, “๋งˆ์Œ์ด ํŽธ์•ˆํ•ด์ง„๋‹ค”๋Š” ๋Œ“๊ธ€์„ ๋ณผ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค, ๋‚ด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด ์ž‘์€ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์ด ๋  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Œ์„ ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์•˜๋‹ค. ๋ถˆํ™”๋Š” ๋‚˜์—๊ฒŒ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ํ–‰์œ„๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด, ๋งˆ์Œ์„ ๋‹ค๋“ฌ์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์˜ ๊ธธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋А๊ปด์ง„๋‹ค. ํ•œ ํš ํ•œ ํš์— ๋‹ด์€ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋ˆ„๊ตฐ๊ฐ€์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฟ๋Š”๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋„ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•˜๋‹ค. ์•„์ง ๋งŽ์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐฐ์šธ ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋งŽ์ง€๋งŒ, ๋ถ€์ฒ˜๋‹˜๊ป˜์„œ ๊ฑธ์œผ์‹  ๊ธธ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‚˜ ์—ญ์‹œ

์กฐ์‹ฌ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๊ฒŒ ๋ถ“์„ ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์ „์‹œ๊ฐ€ ๊ด€๋žŒ์ž์—๊ฒŒ๋„ ๊ฐ์ž์˜ ์‚ถ์„ ๋Œ์•„๋ณด๋Š” ๊ณ„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค.

 



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์ •ํ•˜์œจ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋…ธํŠธ

  





 

Eight Contemplations, Eight Impressions 


Artist Statement


It is said that Buddhist paintings (called bulhwa) originated from a longing for the Buddha and the need to convey Buddhist teachings to the illiterate. In today’s terms, they could be considered illustrated versions of Buddhist scriptures—visual interpretations of profound texts.

The theme of this series, Palsangdo (Eight Great Events of the Buddha’s Life), is one of the representative forms of bulhwa. It depicts eight significant scenes from the life of Siddhartha Gautama—from his birth to his death and final liberation. These eight moments illustrate the core philosophy of Buddhism: the Four Noble Truths—suffering, the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the path to that cessation. Historically, these paintings served both to awaken faith and convey Buddhist teachings in temples.

What makes Palsangdo truly special is that it doesn’t just tell the Buddha’s story—it mirrors our own. We experience despair, wander in search of purpose, and occasionally encounter a spark of insight. Perhaps each of us is painting our own Palsangdo throughout life.


Dosollae Sang (Descent from Tusita Heaven)
This scene reinterprets the moment when the Buddha descends from Tusita Heaven into the womb of Queen Maya, symbolized by Bodhisattva Hลmyล riding a white elephant in her dream. I chose the fine, meticulous style of Chinese gongbi painting rather than the traditional Korean format. Materials include silk, mineral pigments, malachite green, white powder, and gold leaf, all applied using traditional techniques.

Biramgangsaeng Sang (Miraculous Birth in Lumbini)
This piece captures the moment Siddhartha is born in the Lumbini Garden, declaring “Above heaven and below heaven, I alone am honored.” I created a relief sculpture to emphasize dimension. Rather than a fully grown form, I used a chubby, round figure to portray a smiling baby Buddha, hoping to express childlike purity.

Samunyugwan Sang (Four Encounters)
Here, I combined a conceptual sketch with the narrative of the Buddha witnessing sickness, old age, and death. I aimed to depict the grotesque reality of human suffering as Siddhartha first encountered it—revealing the impermanence of life.

Yuseongchulga Sang (Renunciation)
This scene illustrates the night of Siddhartha’s secret departure from the palace, with everyone asleep. I embedded this imagery into the inner robes of a palace maiden using a “painting within a painting” technique to create a dreamlike atmosphere.

Seolsan Sudo Sang (Austerities in the Snow Mountains)
In this piece, I focused on the vast silence of the snowy mountains, portraying the Buddha's austere practices as a small figure within a large landscape. The emphasis is on the stillness and discipline of his spiritual journey.

Suhahangma Sang (Victory Over Mara)
Based on the depiction from Tongdosa Temple, this scene recreates the moment Buddha overcomes the demon Mara. I maintained the original’s size, style, and palette, but added familiar villains from pop culture to infuse both humor and symbolism.

Nokwonjeonbeop Sang (First Sermon at Deer Park)
This piece was painted on deep indigo silk with gold leaf to depict the Buddha and his attendants. Since gold leaf never fades with time, it symbolizes the eternal light of truth that persists even in darkness.

Ssangnim Yeolban Sang (Final Nirvana under Twin Trees)
I used only ink on white silk, omitting color, to emphasize the calm and desireless state of Nirvana. The brushwork focuses on line and gradation to express the serene end of the Buddha’s journey.


Each scene of Palsangdo was rendered with different materials and techniques, requiring considerable thought and experimentation. Searching for expressions that matched the symbolism and mood of each scene was a continuous journey in itself.

I also referred to Buddhist paintings not only from the Joseon Dynasty but also from Nepal, Tibet, China, and Japan. Through this process, I could sense the cultural nuances and diverse styles unique to each region. Reinterpreting them wasn’t easy, but I found joy and deep learning in the effort—especially in carefully painting every fold of a Bodhisattva’s robe, which felt like a meditative practice in itself.

Palsangdo is a Buddhist narrative painting that depicts the life and enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama. Facing the reality of suffering, he chose to leave his princely life behind, eventually overcoming Mara’s temptations beneath the Bodhi tree to attain enlightenment. This story is also a metaphor for the struggles, temptations, decisions, and triumphs we face in our own lives.


While working on Palsangdo, I saw my own journey in the Buddha’s life before renunciation—the hesitation before I began painting bulhwa, the decision to leave a stable career, and the many trials and doubts along the way. “Can I really follow this path to the end?” That question constantly lingered in my mind.

But at some point, I noticed that my paintings began to comfort others. Seeing comments like “It feels like Avalokiteshvara is watching over me” or “Your painting brings me peace” made me realize my work could become a small light for someone else. For me, bulhwa is more than painting—it is a path of inner cultivation. If the sincerity within each stroke can reach someone’s heart, that alone is enough.

Though I still have much to learn, I carefully pick up my brush, following the path the Buddha once walked. I hope this exhibition becomes a moment of quiet reflection for each visitor—a chance to turn inward and connect with their own life’s journey.



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