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materials and its medium properties are placed on paper according to the laws of nature. To follow nature means following the laws
of nature. As Oriental painting is usually executed on paper into which ink and color are easy to permeate and infiltrate with a soft
brush, it has no choice but to rest on extremely accidental techniques. It is difficult to do this painting artificially and arbitrarily. It is
the tradition of Oriental painting technique to paint by inevitably using techniques brought by chance. Its paintings are not artificial
and contrived but are done in a non-action way

Ha paints pictures and calligraphy on rice paper, which is an elastic material that embraces depth and volume even on a flat surface
because of its absorptive property. Paper seeped with ink is a fractal space that is neither two-dimensional nor three-dimensional,
showing a created and altered dimension. Ink spreads and seeps into this space. Ink painting is ultimately completed by the law of
water. His scenes show the flow of spreading and permeating ink. His brushwork vibrates between scene and blank space, figuration
and abstraction, and line and image. His brushstrokes sway sensuously. The most fundamental brushstrokes and lines are really
bone method-like. The bone method is a way to depict the basic form of an object and refers to an emotion hidden in this form. That
is, the source of form and what sustains it is after all qi, or inner energy. His brushwork seems to hint at forms such as pine trees, plum
blossoms, orchids, and roses, but above all displays qi. His brushwork is a record of his physical actions. He shows things such as his
own body's curves, motions, movements, trembles, and breath. He is conducting formative experiments to incarnate the spirit of
ink wash painting through the brush and unfolding the formative process achieved through his brush and ink. Therefore, the literati
painting he pursues represents his inner spiritual world and reveals vitality by borrowing natural objects. That is to say, he tries to
attain abstraction deriving from literary energy.

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