issue 1
Fight through the darkness with artist, Jiyoung Son.
Once poised on the verge of oblivion, Jiyoung Son’s dreams, like elusive murmurs, seemed destined to dissolve into the darkness.
Against the odds, Jiyoung clung to life and set out on an upward climb from the trenches of desolation to the pinnacle of creative eloquence. Nowadays, within the black and white expanse of her Minhwa paintings, she inserts a collection of silent prayers. Each brushstroke becomes a stanza, a fragment of her recovery that converges into a dialogue between light and shadow. Here, the ephemeral relationship between vulnerability and perseverance plays out and culminates in a manifesto of unwavering resolve against the caprices of fate.
Jiyoung’s influence also extends to the Harang Society, an art collective who share their personal aspirations through the medium of traditional art. At the intersection of artistic expression and communal purpose, she fleshes out cranes, phoenixes and avian denizens, all of which fly high and deliver dreams of health, prosperity and unity as they go.
