We were lucky to catch up with Juwon Seong recently and have shared our conversation below.
Juwon, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.
When I think back my childhood, I was a creative kid just like the other artists. I always drew doodles in the corners of books or made weird stuffs out of weird materials. I also loved watching advertisments, music videos and movies endlessly and used to tear up cool pages from magazines. It was certain that I love “appreciate” something that visually beautiful & interesting, and I knew I was going to study and have a career in art anyway. However I’ve always had an ambition to express those “feels” at the same time. I’ve thinking about it for a very long time. May be too long. I simply tried to follow my intuition. I’m a person with lots of worries so I just experienced and appreciated many types of art and tried to find something that actually makes me happy and peaceful. It wasn’t long before I realized what I really wanted as an art school graduate.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
I love the intensity and the intuitive delivery that a first impression give through visual art. And I believe this is the characteristics that only visual art can have. So I want my artwork to be me by itself. My head is always full of miscellaneous & even constantly updated. It is great for the creativity but it gives me too much anxiety at the same time. So I put those miscellaneous on paper without any pretense. Therefore my artworks are full of words or sentences that do not make sense at all. There are full of mischievous, naughty stuffs and beautiful things in my artworks. I’m a person who’s mischievous and shy at the same time, has a lot of bad thoughts and loves beautiful things at the same time. Just moving my hands as it comes to my mind, drawing outlines one by one with a pen and coloring with colored pencils is a kind of meditation for me. Sometimes it takes a very long time, and l sometimes I draw again and again, but all these processes and times are just for me, nor for anyone else. I believe that all these my honesty will imprint the genuine characteristics of my artworks to whom appreciate my artworks.
What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?
I hope that the people if this world feel and express more. There is a fact that might be so obvious but I recently realized is that the more I express and feel, life becomes richer. People thesedays controls ourselves too much. I think this is why people are too cold to each other. I want them to be happy when you’re happy and sad when you’re sad. When we surf on the waves of our emotion, we will realize that everything in this world, maybe everything in the universe, just arises, disappears and reappears. So I believe that by fully accepting myself, we can empathize with others more, and the hatred towards each other will disappear. Our world is full of things to appreciate.
Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?
I also experienced big and small failures, and once lived in those failures. In my case two things helped my resilence. The first is a relationship that could fully supports me and be there whenever I go back. To me, it is my family. Whenever I feel empty, they just wait for me and believe in me. And the second is consistency. It wasn’t long before I feel the importacne of this. If I just keep my path that I go and I believe, it takes less time to recover and I can go back to my track in more smarter way even if I suffer failures.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.juwonseong.com/
- Instagram: @juwnsng
Image Credits
Juwon Seong