Meditation

This painting belongs to Yoong Bae’s Meditation series. Bae arranged multiple seated figures in silhouette in a grid pattern. While the layout may seem like a silk-screen print, a closer look reveals that each figure was painted one at a time. The multiplicity of figures evokes monks in meditation or scholars reciting classical poetry/texts, or even the tradition of painting a hundred or a thousand Buddhas as an act of devotion.