Kim Jinsoung

A Quiet Resonance That Reveals the Edges of Sensation — Emotional Landscapes Through Layers of Color and Line At first glance, Kim Jinsoung’s paintings may appear as still landscapes. But upon closer observation, one begins to notice something else: light that shifts with time, wind that brushes gently across the surface, and the delicate textures of emotion - condensed into countless subtle lines. Her work is not simply a record of “what was seen,” but a sensory language that recalls “what was felt.” Kim composes her surfaces with a fusion of oil pastel, colored pencil, and oil paint. This combination creates both a physical density and emotional depth, allowing the surface to carry the weight of memory. Thousands of short strokes, laid down in repeating rhythms, build a quiet flow - both a visual tempo and a temporal accumulation. Through this meditative layering, she internalizes the landscape and renders it perceptible to the viewer. One of her central bodies of work, the Mass of Scenery series, juxtaposes the external form of a scene with the internal sensation it evokes. In this series, landscapes are rarely consistent in space or time. They break apart, abstract, or dissolve into planes of color and strands of line. These are not representations of place, but paintings of atmosphere - of what is remembered, what lingers emotionally long after the image itself has faded. In The Road We Walk Together (2022), a gentle trail of footprints cuts across the canvas, inscribing time into a seemingly static field. The soft curves of white recall a snow-covered plain, yet the layered texture evokes both flickering light and the tender emotions of a walk remembered. In Border - Forest (2019), reddish-brown hues compress a forest into abstract shapes, marking a threshold between the visual end of a scene and the emotional beginning of something unseen. Through these works, Kim Jinsoung seeks more than to depict a landscape - she invites us to reorient our sensory experience. Her paintings pose quietly insistent questions: Are we truly seeing? How much do we trust our senses? What separates memory from the reality of what was? She offers no answers. Instead, her canvases gently recalibrate our perception, asking us to slow down and feel—to notice the emotional residue left behind by color, line, and texture. Her work speaks not in declarations, but in whispers that linger. Ultimately, Kim’s painting is a philosophical experiment disguised as landscape. Borrowing the language of the natural world, she invites reflection on the borders between sense and memory, between outer form and inner stillness. She chooses time over brushwork, emotion over depiction, silence over narrative. And in that silence, a world quietly unfolds. Selected Works The Road We Walk Together (2022) Border - Forest (2019) Mass of Scenery (2021)