Illustrated and Written by Yun Suknam / Directed by Han Sungok

The first picture book with 32 drawings and the essay of a painter, Yun Suknam, is finally published. Ms. Yun Suknam made her debut at somewhat old age of 40 in her life after living as an ordinary housewife, and for the last 38 years she has actively engaged with sculpture, installation art, and painting as an artist deeply seeking femininity and motherhood. This is her first time to publish her drawings as a book. Yun has such a young artistic sense as if we almost forget her age, which is 78 years old this year. And the illustrator Han Sungok has read ‘Many Emotions’ from the works of Yun and has been deeply impressed. These two artists have made utmost efforts to create such a beautiful picture book beyond just a simple art book with the chance of meeting each other at the exhibition in 2015.

Beginning with a thin line, the lines become two when we go to the next page, and finally, a very small house is on a swing hung by those two thin lines after going to the next page. From a small room of that small house, the story of Yun about ‘the smallest room of mine where the blue sky stays near the window in the forest during winter’ begins. Starting from her own story when she isolated herself due to fear about the world, to story about her distant but also close family, to valuable creatures near her, which led her to the world, the range of the whole stories gets expanded as we turn over pages. Drawings created with pale watercolors, crayons, and simple pencils are subtly but also strongly described in the space called book with different blank space from the original.