Jade Cycle

Although Jiha Moon uses the genre of landscape as a point of departure, she is not interested in creating realistic representations of traditional pastoral scenes. Instead, she often evokes atmospheric conditions such as gusts of wind, rain, and clouds.

Through the combination of lyrical painted and drawn elements, gestural washes and flowing brushstrokes, "Jade Cycle" suggested the ever-changing movements and cycles of the natural world. Moon illustrates the journey of precipitation, as raindrops merge into large bodies of water such as rivers and streams before transforming into vapor and returning to the sky.

Moon's distinctive combination of abstract and representational styles reference many traditions simultaneously, including traditional Asian landscape painting, cartography, calligraphy, and the appropriation of icons from popular culture.