Ecriture No. 080222, 2008
Park Seo-Bo
South Korea, b. 1931
Ecriture No. 080222, 2008
Mixed media with Korean hanji paper on canvas
Promised gift of the Foundation Ink
Created nearly four decades into the development of Park’s Seo-Bo’s Ecriture series, this piece acts as a record of the artist’s repeated action, creating shallow furrows in wet hanji paper, an act of meditative self-emptying. In the center of the work Park embeds a “breathing hole,” a break from his signature furrows that allows the eye and the spirit a place of rest and emptiness.
© Park Seo-Bo, photos courtesy of the artist and Kukje Gallery, Seoul