Composition

This ink painting is a relatively large example of the Abstract Letter works that Ungno made in prison. Although Goam’s main focus in the 1960s was on collage and colours, this work was painted in ink alone because of the scarcity of mediums in prison. A political prisoner, he wasn’t free to speak or write and in such a condition, art was probably his mental escape, and in particular his Abstract Letters. In fact, some parts of this work are vaguely connotative of certain situations or people; and thus, the whole canvas seems to be packed with certain stories as if Goam were writing them in his own vocabulary.