PARK WOOJUNG 박우정

"During the three-week Corona quarantine period, I embarked on a still-life work.
I was interested in flowers naturally, thinking about creatures that respond to changes in time rather than inanimate things. The diversity, vulnerability, intensity, and imaginative form of the flowers were sufficient material for a new still life work.
Watching the changes until the flowers bloom felt like observing the small movements of nature. So I started photographing flowers during the quarantine period, and in my studio I began to take up space for various flowers. As I watched the flowers begin to dry at some point and change into a different shape, I thought,
“At what point is this flower dying, or is it living a different life?
I began to imagine the flowers as if they were dying, or perhaps somewhere between life and death, as if they were the protagonists of many situations. In French, still life is called "nature Morte", literally "dead nature".
The word “nature” may mean have another form of life.
The combination of these two words implies life and death at the same time. Like our lives dying at the same time as our birth." 

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Park Woojung