Pyungchul Kim

I am a landscape painter, particularly interested in the texture created by nature. Tree branches, barks, ripples in lakes, weathered rocks are some examples. I see nature not as a configuration of Euclidean geometric forms as suggested by Paul Cézanne, but a sequence of causal events. The texture in nature is a manifestation of the causality principle through which we experience the illusion of time. I feel profoundly connected to the source of being when I am able to capture this illusion.

I typically do not paint what I see in front of me. My typical painting process starts with scientific understanding of the sequence of events presented in the subject matter. The next event is always based on the current event, hence causality. This always yields an ordered random arrangement of visual elements, i.e., texture in nature. I often write computer programs to simulate the principles and create experimental digital images. For instance, I wrote a program that uses the parametric L-system to generate the visual shape of tree growth and pruning over time. I also use my own program, called ORStudio, for color experimentation. Painting comes as the final step. It is the archival step of my discovery of human’s connectedness to causality.

My full bio is available at https://www.linkedin.com/in/pyungchul-kim/.