This visual work, created for a special exhibition at the National Folk Museum of Korea, centers around the concept of rest—not as absence, but as a transitional state. Inspired by Jeong Seon’s Geumgangjeondo, we deconstructed elements of traditional Korean landscape art and reinterpreted them through a contemporary graphic lens. The figure depicted may resemble an ordinary person who has left behind the mundane world, but their exaggerated, perspective-defying form hints at something beyond—a modern representation of the sinseon, the sage-like transcendents of Korean myth. Rather than illustration, the work employs abstracted graphic forms to explore the quiet rupture between reality and elevation—where stillness is not silence, but presence.
Through visual dislocation, re-layered perspective, and spatial interruption, this project reflects csucsa studio’s unique approach to translating cultural narratives into present-day graphic language.