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How can a person become beautiful?

Dear artist Lee Kwi-hwa

I visited the Choi Art Center in the arms of Naeseorak Nature. I saw her painting back to nature. The grass was filled with
the canvas. Grass leaves stretched in all directions and overlapped, weeds that have always been by our side but have not
been noticed. I couldn't move from the grass, which became the owner of the canvas, leaving behind numerous trees and
flowers in Mt.Seorak.

"That's right. It's the first weed that leaves anywhere in barren or wounded land.“

Artist Lee Gwi-hwa, who read my question, approached me and started talking.

"I haven't even gotten a name from people yet, but it sprouts where it should always be. Even in such a pile of leaves,
there is never a tangle with each other. While bending over and looking at weeds, I saw an order that grew together at the
lowest point, but had no leaves tangled.“

Artist Lee continues to serve as a guide to the paintings of soldiers serving in Wontong. This is the life that God, who has
the sovereignty of everything in the world through the order of weeds, has shown.

Dozens of people create a studio together in the backyard of the Choi Art Center, draw pictures, become mothers of
teachers and soldiers every holiday, look back on themselves, and are reborn through the era of creation.

While reaching out, listening, and sympathizing with each soldier, you can find in the picture that the tangled heart in
your heart that you didn't even know is being relieved. For 20 years, I have become a mother with more children than
anyone else in the world to spend time with soldiers who are enlisted and discharged.

Painting was a phrase from 'sincerity' that connects artists and soldiers. Numerous indescribable truths come and go, but
the soldier's closed mind is healed. Then, the soldier crosses the river he couldn't cross, reconciles, and becomes a young
soldier full of positivity to the world and people.

When you go to Naeseorak, you can meet an artist living in a beautiful era who spreads strands of the world intertwined
with the motherhood of holding a brush tightly.

- Lee An-su (Artist Residence, Motif.1 Representative)

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