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이용순 LEE Yongsoon : 비 오는 날 On Rainy Days

ⓒ이용순 LEE Yongsoon
비 오는 날 On Rainy Days, Archival Pigment Print, 74x110cm, 2021

On Rainy Days

Taking a picture is an act of verbal communication between the subject Since photography is nothing more than a dictation of my thoughts, I
and myself, and I become the subject only when the subject becomes now begin to explore my essence and object through myself in those
me. When this is presupposed, I completely permeate into a gray light. days. In fact, that is what is expressed in writing must be converted
into an image when reading it, and that is why paintings and
It rained heavily in the late autumn of that year and I was thrown into photographs must be read as text.
the rain. Then, hiding my scars, I went out to the rainy beach and
pressed the shutter, and the gray sky and the breathless figures below I wished the picture was a whisper. And I hoped that the sweetness
it were lined up in my heart. I was often locked in a white dark room, of that whisper would linger in my head for a long time. However, my
and around that time Guns & Roses' "November Rain" was playing on memory through photography is always sore and painful like an ulcer.
the TV. Sometimes it is painful enough to want to delete it, but aren't humans
living with memories?
Fog really does perfectly remove anything I don't need from the
screen. This is to become a space where all of the screens are filled I bring out that old bitter story of mine. So I chose “Rainy Day” and
only with my language. The beginning of the fog was a very long “White Morning”. This is because it is a condition for me to return to
time ago. In the white space where there was nothing, I watched the that time in its entirety and reflect on my memories. So rain and fog
objects creeping into me from time to time. The fog is a memory, and are markers of reminiscence to me.
its recollection led me to a world of deeper isolation.
LEE Yongsoon