Kim Jinsung is a visual artist who explores the boundaries between landscape and still life, flatness and dimensionality, and reality and imagination, developing a distinctive and poetic visual language. Her signature series, Mass of Scenery, is inspired by the image of Earth viewed from space—an unfamiliar, spherical perspective that challenges the traditional notion of landscape as a flat, expansive view. In this work, she reimagines landscapes as still-life forms, asking: What if a landscape could be held, shaped, and viewed as a single mass? Kim’s artistic process is marked by the meticulous layering of thousands of fine lines using colored pencils, oil pastels, and oil paints applied with delicate brushes. Through this labor-intensive technique, she builds texture, depth, and a sense of movement. Her landscapes—often featuring fluttering laundry, swaying grasses, or rippling water—are rendered with lyrical sensitivity, drawing viewers into a dreamlike yet strangely familiar world. Though her technique is reminiscent of drawing, her compositions are not strictly realistic. She simplifies and reconstructs observed scenes, combining real-life elements with imagined details. The result is a landscape that, while not literally real, feels entirely plausible. In earlier series such as Hung Landscapes, Kim used draped fabrics as surfaces to host her landscapes, likening them to discarded skin or personal layers. These works explored flatness and surface, while her more recent Mass of Scenery paintings embrace physical volume and presence. By embedding landscapes within the forms of everyday still-life objects—teapots, fruits, stones—or into ambiguous, organic shapes, Kim redefines the genre of landscape itself. These “masses” of scenery resemble the Earth viewed from an impossible distance: serene, self-contained, and contemplative. Her work offers a philosophical reflection on perception and scale, as well as a quiet but persistent challenge to how we define and frame what we see. In Mass of Scenery, Kim Jinsung not only deepens her own visual identity but also reveals her ongoing evolution as an artist—one who continues to reimagine the world through gentle, persistent acts of transformation.