Yeonggyeong No

Adviser: Isak Berbic

Days

In the world of art, you can easily turn your existing imagination, the name given to things, the theory we know, into imagination. This is called ‘unfamiliar or unfamiliar viewing’. A work of art (like photographic work) is the work that leaves the impression and impression of things you have experienced in a moment. I try and enjoy seeing things unfamiliarly without seeing them as they are, bringing emotions to objects with a rich imagination. One of the methods that I like to use by taking very expand pictures. That way, it is more abstract but looks very detailed at the same time to enjoy my ordinary everyday scenes to document them.

I think that the act of taking a picture is to show the beauty and feel of any part of the world. Through the observations, many artists have been inspired by everyday nature, landscapes, and things. Like them, I observe objects with various angles, and I realize the colors of ordinary things will look different every second, then it is my job to take a picture when it catches my mind. The harmony of light and shadow is revealed through observation of the beautiful curves that things have, the fine details that cannot be seen from a distance. I find small, delicate details that I couldn’t see before. I can see the space in which the object is placed and get to know that things are in a relationship with the background. It also allows things to look completely different depending on where I look. I try to get out of visual height and realize that there are many worlds in it.

The title Days of my two series of my work show the preference of my photography habit to discover, record, and seriously observe something around me, rather than finding a subject or material from a distance. Photos taken in everyday frames act like a diary that expresses each of my emotions, mostly expressions of loneliness and quietness that happened during the time of the quarantine.

My inspiration is from Berenice Abbott’s Manhattan Bridge looking up, 1936. She was a pioneering American documentary photographer. She took landscape and architecture pictures during the Great Depression as a documentary purpose. As I am stuck in my home for 14 days, the only thing I am doing is opening the window and watching the view from there, and doing my school work.

From the upper view, 2020

As I looked and observed from the window more open about what was going on, I wanted to document the quietness of the city due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the artist that I mentioned above who took pictures during the Great Depression to document the raw pictures. This is my version of observation with different points of view and historical events and titled From the upper view for the series photographs.

This is the picture by Ernst Haas, and this picture gives me a new observation of the water reflection. This picture with distorted shapes of the lines makes the picture very abstract. Most of my work comes from everyday life. I don’t find any place or set specifically for shooting. There are moments when the scenes of everyday life are strangely beautiful, and I try to capture that moment with my camera. However, when it comes to photography, there is not a lot of probability that it captures the emotions I felt at the moment.

Green, 2020

Most of my work comes from everyday life. I don’t find any place or set specifically for shooting. There are moments when the scenes of everyday life are strangely beautiful, and I try to capture that moment with my camera. However, when it comes to photography, there is not a lot of probability that it captures the emotions I felt at the moment.

However, these pictures are showing the moment of peace. During the self-quarantine, as everyone would have the same feeling, I was feeling so tired even though I stayed in my room for so many days! I was sick of watching the computer screen. So the first thing I did after 14days of self-quarantine was going out for a WALK! The Green is titled after I walked through the park and was thankful that I am healthy and can enjoy nature again. Not only did I enjoy being outside, but I also did not realize that I could smell the water and grass after the rain. And by taking the water reflection picture of the tree is that the visualization of that moment with the smell of water and grass.