Dusk, or Dawn

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This work, “ Dusk, or Dawn ”, adopts the triptych format to depict the flow of time as a single image of a waterfall. From left to right, the panels suggest the progression of past, present, and future; however, what is depicted is not a series of different landscapes, but the same waterfall throughout. In this work, the right edge (future) and the left edge (past) are visually connected through the continuous flow of the same water, allowing time to emerge not as a straight line, but as a circulating loop.

At the lowest layer of the surface, oil paint establishes colors that evoke the threshold between day and night—twilight and dawn. The left panel is the darkest, the center carries a reddish hue, and the right gradually shifts toward a yellow-inflected light. Upon this foundation, layers of beeswax from candles actually used in a church are repeatedly applied, and the flowing image of the waterfall is formed above them. Finally, vertical lines are carved across the surface, causing the colors sealed within the lower layers to reappear.

Beeswax is a material that contains the traces of time in which someone once lit a flame in prayer. The act of carving into these layers is not so much a means of completing an image as it is an excavation—unearthing buried time and exposing it once more to light. Here, the waterfall does not appear as a natural landscape, but as a state in which time accumulates, peels away, and continues to flow.

Although the three panels exist as independent images, the viewer’s gaze traverses them to reconstruct a single waterfall. Past and future are not separated, but quietly connected through the present. This work attempts to visualize a sense of time that is not linear, but continuously transforming while remaining in perpetual circulation, rendered as semi-transparent layers.

Size: H182 × W91 × D3 cm each