THE QUESTION MARKER

THE QUESTION MARKER

“I aim for doodling. I always work with the word ‘Doodlism’ in my mind.
Lines don’t always need to be straight, and they are drawn like they are by a child who is only a few years old.
Such childish pictures and letters meet to set the proper layout. Without any given skill, I simply draw the colors and brushstrokes that my mind wants, just using my instincts.”

There’s a little kid. He is always fond of meeting and talking with people, but the only child had to deal with loneliness alone. However, the boy soon learned his own way and began to make art. In the corner of the room, Lego, robots, and people were reborn from a little child’s hands in an old sketchbook. In this way, the child began to paint his own world.

He remembers his mother, who always told him to have a big dream in his mind. The United States, which he often visited during his vacation since he was young, was a bigger world for him. As an exchange student in Los Angeles, the Las Vegas Circus was a great experience for him, an ordinary engineering student.

The performance gave his heart a great dream of becoming an artist.
He studied design at the San Francisco Academy of Art University and got a job at a well-known company after graduation. He could have had a satisfying career as a designer, but a feeling of restlessness came over him before long. The deep mannerism of work that comes with technology development has been a part that cannot be easily overlooked by him who dreamed of creative work.

In the deep dawn under the bright moon, he met familiar loneliness while taking a walk. The thoughts and pictures that came from the little boy’s hands were recalled with the memory of loneliness. The form of darkness was broken, but he began to scribble along with his hands’ sense and mind and soon felt lifting a heavy load off his mind.

The “scribbling” philosophy resembles his artistic philosophy in that it is not bound by any artistic form.
His experience is put on canvas and becomes his own color, replacing his voice.
In other words, my graffiti soon becomes the language of painting and communicates with others.

“Think differently from others,” is a tattoo phrase engraved on his right hand. He ended up becoming an artist just like he dreamed. As his mother told him to have a big dream in his heart, as an artist, I am moving toward a bigger world, fulfilling my artistic longing through graffiti.

“I ask people questions using the language of an artistic philosophy of ‘Doodlism’.”

“I like being free. I hate having to do something; the composition, the value, the color, and so on, which must be done. I want to be free. To me, who grew up as an only child and felt lonely, the sketchbook I drew on in the corner of my room was another self. When I scribble, the loneliness goes away. The crooked lines, the simple form, the illegible handwriting, are my own diaries.”

Read the full article on Art Market Magazine Issue #51