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    Ego Formation
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    Ego Formation, Heeyeon Chi, 2021, oil on oil paper, 50 x 65 cm

    Reminiscent of an occasion when each sensory interaction with flowers brought a significant influence on ego formation.

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    What makes you satisfy in a relationship
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    What makes you satisfy in a relationship, Heeyeon Chi, 2020, oil on oil paper, 50 x 65 cm

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    To be alive as fake
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    To be alive as fake, Heeyeon Chi, 2021, oil on oil paper, 50 x 65 cm

    As water is absorbed into flowers to be fresh, the heart pumps blood to keep human alive. The imaginary flower got an implanted heart, expecting it to stay longer inside a vase. But can this mutant still be called a flower?

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    Ephemeral plant and my fragile mind
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    Ephemeral plant and my fragile mind, Heeyeon Chi, 2021, oil on oil paper, 50 x 65 cm

    Flowers can stay fresh temporarily inside a vase with water. Despite the effort, it can only be vibrant for few days and then it starts to rot and wrinkle very quickly. Ageing doesn't happen to a human at the same speed and it's impossible to stay alive when our body gets displaced into the water for a week. However, it was interesting to connect this concept with my life.

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    Grow with flowers
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    Grow with flowers, Heeyeon Chi, 2021, oil on oil paper, 50 x 65 cm

    Grow with flowers shows my jealousy towards flowers as it can bloom, show it’s beauty in such a short period of time. Considering a flower as an aesthetic result of growth of a plant, I have drawn the flower backwards to represent the selfish mind aspiring for the good result before my actions.

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    My Creation, Heeyeon Chi
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    My Creation, Heeyeon Chi, Heeyeon Chi, 2020, oil on oil paper, 50 x 65 cm

    Sometimes I start with things and ideas that interlink (visually and symbolically). Whilst I’m holding a brush to make new work, the fluid oil brush mark it makes reminds me of the movement of a snake, a snake has a similar curvy line like an apple peel, and so on. Through this train of thoughts, I enjoy how the creative choices I make can result in a new visual language as a painting.

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  7. Heeyeon Chi – BA/BFA

    Curriculum Vitae

    Education

    2017-2021
    Slade School of Fine Art
    UCL, BA Fine Art

     

    2011-2017
    North London Collegiate School
    Jeju

Heeyeon Chi – BA/BFA

Most of my practice has been keen on transformation and the interlink between objects. I have experimented with ideas visually from grotesque to romantic composition using human body parts to resemble some qualities of a flower. Colour, form, and type of a flower also give a huge change in value. On the other hand, there is no real boundary and limit existing in this way in an art piece. A visual image of a flower that an artist creates on a canvas creates a nuance. The artist's perspective and thoughts are translated into every brush stroke and colour palette that one chooses. The translucent layers of paint are used to transfer my ephemeral emotion changes day by day. Therefore the existence of a flower in each work will conflict with the meaning of the flower in the real world. I believe this feeling of “similar” transcend the existing boundaries and brings a new experience to the viewer.