LAKE ANALOGUE

This series of paintings is based on an imaginary lake. If you take a look at old world maps made in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, you will almost always find a large lake in the southeast part of Asia. The same lake also appears on Buddhist world maps. A lake is an oasis, a place free from heat and thirst, and a source of rivers that hydrate and enrich the land. Therefore, a lake symbolized a peaceful sanctuary, safe from evil influences. However, this lake that appears on both Eastern and Western maps never actually existed. In this series, I depict this imaginary lake as a nodal point between imagination and reality.
The image, which I print onto silver leaf using a photosensitizer, changes its appearance over time. Silver leaf turns yellowish due to corrosion caused by contact with the air, while the poorly developed image becomes decolorized and eventually disappears. As if in tandem with the imagination of people from the past, the depicted lake continuously wanders about, displaying a variety of images and shapes.