About the Artist
Joo Park-Kwon’s interest in the human mind and psychology led her to East Asian and Buddhism philosophy. Her art work explores harmony and disharmony in people, in society, and the environment. In East Asian philosophy, the world is viewed as one realm where Yin and Yang energies are kept in balance with free flow. When this balance is broken, the person or the world becomes ill formed.
Since she moved back to America in 2021, she was deeply moved with the beauty of nature, projecting a balanced harmonious world. She sees nature's harmony as a result of continuous interactions of environmental elements from the birth of earth to the present, and it will continue. She likes to express the harmonious beauty of nature with Korean pigments painting technique on mulberry paper and silk. Her East oriented art and thoughts are implied on West nature.