MINJOO KIM
가죽.페인팅
Identity Shaped by Shifting Perspectives
MOM's GARDEN
The garden belongs to my mother, but the paintings are not simply about her garden.
"Garden" explores a reconstructed landscape formed through fragmented perspectives and moments in time. I photograph the same place repeatedly, from different angles and at different hours, then assemble these images into a collage that constructs a space that does not exist in reality. From this collage, I develop a painting that keeps the surface of a photograph while carrying subtle misalignments within it.
Presented in an elongated format, the work invites the viewer to move along its surface. As the viewpoint shifts, the landscape appears continuous, yet small disruptions quietly interrupt its coherence. The garden becomes a space that feels familiar, but cannot fully exist — situated between reality and construction.
PROCESS
Stage 01 — Photo collage, source material
DIGITAL COMPOSITE
Hundreds of photographs taken over several days were digitally assembled into a single reconstructed landscape, which served as the reference for the final three-panel painting.
01.Repeated observation
The garden is photographed on separate visits, never from one fixed position. Morning and dusk, close and far, are gathered without a plan for how they'll fit together.
02. Digital Composite
The photographs are combined in Photoshop, each one layered and blended along its own irregular edge rather than cropped into a grid — building a single panorama that only exists in this assembled, digital form.
03. Painting the panels
The collage becomes the reference for three painted panels, each worked separately. What began as visibly cut fragments is rebuilt, brushstroke by brushstroke, into one continuous surface.
PANEL 1
PANEL 1 Acrylic on canvas, 15 × 60 in
PANEL 2
PANEL 2 Acrylic on canvas, 15 × 60 in
PANEL 3
PANEL 3 Acrylic on canvas, 15 × 60 in