이만나 작가는 일상에서 마주하는 풍경에서의 낯선 경험과 내면의 심리를 작가만의 독특한 색채와 기법으로 오랜 시간 반복적으로 밀도를 쌓아 올리는 과정을 통해 작품을 완성해 나간다. 작가는 자신의 작품에 대해 “카뮈는 외부 세계를 관습이 아닌 ‘그것 자체’로 접촉할 때 생기는 ‘생소함’에 대해서 이야기하는데, 이것이 내가 ‘낯섦’이라고 말하는 느낌에 대한 가장 적합한 설명이다.”라고 말한다. 이는 ‘우연한 맞닥뜨림’이라고도 이야기하는데, 매번 접하는 일상의 공간이 어느 날, 자신을 사로잡는 낯섦이라는 이름으로 다가오는 찰나를 표현한 것이다. 얕지만 깊고, 깊지만 얕은 이 조용한 풍경은 또 다른 자신의 내면과 만나는 순간이 된다.
Manna LEE completes his work through the process of repeatedly building density over a long period of time with his own unique palette and techniques to represent the unexpected experiences in the landscape he encounters in everyday life and the inner psychology. He says of his work, “Camus talks about the ‘unfamiliarity’ that arises from contacting the outside world not conventionally but as ‘itself’, and this is the most relevant explanation for the feeling I call ‘strangeness’.” This can also be referred to as an ‘accidental encounter’, which expresses the moment in which a space that is frequently encountered is experienced one day as something strange that captivates oneself. Shallow but deep, deep but shallow, this quiet landscape becomes the moment to meet another side of oneself.
Manna LEE completes his work through the process of repeatedly building density over a long period of time with his own unique palette and techniques to represent the unexpected experiences in the landscape he encounters in everyday life and the inner psychology. He says of his work, “Camus talks about the ‘unfamiliarity’ that arises from contacting the outside world not conventionally but as ‘itself’, and this is the most relevant explanation for the feeling I call ‘strangeness’.” This can also be referred to as an ‘accidental encounter’, which expresses the moment in which a space that is frequently encountered is experienced one day as something strange that captivates oneself. Shallow but deep, deep but shallow, this quiet landscape becomes the moment to meet another side of oneself.