Naun Park
Naun Park’s work reflects the world around her, focusing on the uncertainty of People living in this era.
The artist’s recognition of this era is 'uncertainty'. Certainty is not guaranteed for the modern people living in the era of new order especially after the COVID-19.
Her digital portrays display characteristics of contemporary people changing according to environments. In particular, with strong colors harmonizing the human figures, the artist creates a mirror image of this era.
The artist focuses on the concept of entropy and creates a storyline of artworks, explaining the contemporary nature of our lives in an era of uncertainty.
Artist Statement
Naun Park has worked on digital imaging of philosophical topic of contemporaneity. She has named her new series of works as ‘The Children of Entropy’.
The artist is expressing people in this era (contemporaries) responding to changes in infinite entropy with the inception of the new norm era after the COVID-19 pandemic. Entropy, a degree of disorder in thermodynamics, refers to a quantity that represents uncertainty of the system. Not a single 'certainty' is guaranteed for people living in a new norm era after the COVID-19 pandemic. As such, Naun thinks that the concept of entropy is the most appropriate term to explain the contemporaries living in an era of uncertainty. She emphasizes on that people must start to live in an era of infinite entropy where nothing is certain.
In the title, the children refers to us people. As if everything in the world is unfamiliar to a newborn baby, modern people living in an era of infinite uncertainty are unfamiliar with the “New Norm” era.
Through the children of entropy series, the artist expresses a new norm-like view of the world in various ways and provides imagination to comfort the unfamiliarity of the world. The first series of the continuing series, ‘The Birth of Eve’ begins with a birth of a woman named Eve, a beginning of the worldview. In the next series ‘Encountering of the Children’, it’s expressed as a mirror-like image showing the uncertainty of the new norm era in human relationships. Her work is based on a hybrid process of digital imaging, hand drawing, and serendipity. She draws and transfers the original work into a digital image. She applies the final image to a computer program.
Through this work process, the artist wants to express the zeitgeist as adapting ourselves appropriately to the new norm.
