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Lingering Gaze: Border Night, Oil and water-based pigment on linen, 90 x 60 cm (35 x24 in), 2026
This series (Lingering Gaze, 2026-) begins with a question about how we perceive the world, and in particular, when the act of seeing begins to waver. The Staying Gaze series focuses on moments in which day and night, reality and image, memory and sensation subtly overlap. Through painting, I seek to capture scenes in which perception has not yet stabilized—before the subject is clearly defined.
The scenes in this series are not extraordinary events, but rather landscapes that might easily pass unnoticed. Within them, however, I search for points where the gaze hesitates. When forms do not fully reveal themselves in darkness, or when light allows only partial recognition, the viewer is led to reconsider not what they are seeing, but how they are seeing. These works are not images for representation, but attempts to construct surfaces closer to the process through which perception itself is formed.
Rather than relying on explicit narrative, the series concentrates on layers of sensation. Although the spaces originate from real landscapes, they are reorganized to appear slower and more unfamiliar than reality itself. By adjusting the density of light, the temperature of color, and the texture of the surface, I guide the viewer’s gaze to resist instant consumption and to remain for a moment. This reflects my personal concern with today’s visual environment, in which images are rapidly produced and immediately exhausted.
The central issue in my process is the condition of boundaries. I carefully balance the image so it does not become overly descriptive, yet does not collapse entirely into abstraction. Through repeated decisions to leave and erase, painting becomes not a carrier of information, but a device for tuning sensation. In this sense, the work is less a final result than a space for experimenting with the conditions under which a gaze is formed.
I also consider not only the image within the frame, but the time, distance, and light in which the viewer encounters the work. Rather than presenting a single scene, this series is designed to allow viewers to slowly build a relationship with the image. Through this, I aim to develop painting not as a fixed outcome, but as an evolving field of perception—one that is continuously adjusted and expanded.
