This work presents a process in which a single body is dismantled and transitions into another mode of existence within the opposing environments of sea and fire. Fragmented bodies and anonymous forms do not converge into a singular identity; instead, they reveal a provisional state in which traces of multiple beings are temporarily assembled.
 
The sea functions as a site that simultaneously contains submersion and emergence, disappearance and rebirth, becoming a stage that continuously shifts the body into different states. Fire, while appearing as an image of destruction, operates as the energy of metamorphosis that has recurred throughout this series, refusing to leave existence as a fixed entity and instead propelling it toward other possibilities.
 
Through this work, the mythic figure is explored not as a completed form, but as a “becoming body” that emerges through the passage of environment, events, and external forces.


Park Jung Hyuk’s third painting series, ‘Park’s Land’, unfolds around the idea of “transformation.” When beginning this body of work, the artist was interested in exploring a sense of possibility, and transformation became the theme through which that notion could be articulated. Here, transformation does not refer to a simple shift from A to B, as in familiar mythic or cinematic narratives.

Instead, it encompasses a broader spectrum of states—what something could become, how roles shift according to circumstance, and the latent conditions inherent within a subject.

Figures and forms in the paintings appear structurally dismantled, blurred, or distorted through layered brushwork. These visual disruptions are less about depicting physical change and more about revealing multiple potential states at once. 

Ultimately, ‘Park’s Land’ considers the conditions that allow transformation to occur rather than the moment of change itself. Through overlapping imagery and fluid gestures, the series presents a world defined not by what is changing, but by what can change—an expanded terrain for the artist’s ongoing exploration of painterly imagination.