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2025.08.16

4. Plastic Development: Constructed Schema and Trajectory of Expansion

Schematic Medium is not a fixed style but is in an ‘Evolutionary Process’ that constantly updates its version over time. The series below serve as Key Reference Points that have anchored the concept of Schematic Medium in reality, and as a Foundation for Expansion that will branch out infinitely in the future.

Schematic Painting (2D Projection)
Painting is the first record of my Schema projected onto a plane. The <One Hour> Series is a record of performance capturing intuitive impressions by setting a limited time schema (Duration), while the <Colored-Line Painting> Series serves as the system’s visual vascular system where internal energy is expressed through the flow of lines and colors. Beyond simple flat works, these form the basic grammar of plastic language that will expand into three dimensions and space.
Schematic Drawing (Conceptual Index)
Drawing is the process of erecting the skeleton of thought. The repetitive performance shown in <Semi-Circle & No.9> is a conceptual Index revealing deficiency and imperfection. Rather than aiming for a completed image, this serves as a blueprint verifying the logic of the process where concepts transform into concrete shapes.
Schematic Object (Dimensional Transition)
Objects are experiments in ‘Dimensional Mutation’ where the schema of the plane penetrates into 3D physical space. They demonstrate how the plastic language constructed on a plane structurally adapts and reconstructs into new forms when it encounters the gravity and volume of reality, proving the evolutionary stage of the system adapting to its environment.
Schematic Installation (Spatial & Relational Expansion)
Installation is the present tense of the ‘Relational Expansion’ that Schematic Medium aims for. <Platform1> rearranges past series into a comprehensive spatial schema, constructing an environment where the viewer can intervene. At this stage, the work goes beyond an object of contemplation to function as a ‘Field of Relational Event’ where space and humans interact and meaning is reconstructed at every moment, opening up the possibility for the system to extend into even more complex dimensions.

Ultimately, Schematic Medium transforms the artwork from a ‘beautiful object to be appreciated’ into a ‘Worlding that operates and generates.’ My work does not follow closed laws but is a ‘Performative Generative Structure’ where an imperfect human breathes with the world through the tool of Schema, dimensionally expanding the aesthetic order derived from that process. This exists as a Meta-Praxis, where rational thought and physical practice interact to restructure the world anew.

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