Will You Marry Me?
Seven Images
+ Text
Heesun Shin
Writing as a form of drawing:
I create drawings everyday like writing a daily diary.
The works are based on texts that I collect from my everyday life.
I am fond of collecting texts that capture my attention — a part of the page from a magazine,
a wordplay from a show on TV, a sentence from
a book, a snippet from a conversation with friends or copying Buddhist Sutra, etc.
I choose the most indelible phrases, extract from my perception what I think are the most important parts of each day, and transform them into a visual drawing practice.
Drawing, just like writing, preserves memories, and acts as a record of visual thinking.
However, the memory disappears over time and becomes vague. I am interested in how we humans turn perceptions into memories, and how language shapes our experiences, and the crucial role forgetting plays in human anecdote.
I take and save a great number of notes in order to not forget, and to be able to hold onto my past.
Through this practice, I want to explore the act of remembering and forgetting
my everyday life like reflection on the properties of the drawing form itself.
Image List:
1. Acceptance, 2022
Pencil on yupo paper
11x8.5 inches
02. Human Pancake, 2022
Pencil on yupo paper
11x8.5 inches
03. Give Things Time, 2022
Pencil on yupo paper
11x8.5 inches
04. Hoʻoponopono, 2022
Pencil on yupo paper
11x8.5 inches
05. By Simply Being, 2022
Pencil on yupo paper
11x8.5 inches
06. Will You Marry Me?, 2021
Pencil on paper
11x8.5 inches
07. Chord, 2022
Pencil on bristol paper
11x8.5 inches
Heesun Shin is a visual artist with a multidisciplinary practice spanning sculpture, installation, and drawing. Her work is concerned with ideas of memory, perception, and interior life. She holds a BFA in painting and an
MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where
she currently lives and works. www.shinheesun.com.