An artistic expression is an act of confirming what I have perceived, namely what I have to know while seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling endlessly in the midst of daily life.
What is especially important in my work is how I have grown to understand nature. Nature is a starting point of understanding about life and humanity. It is also a place for an empirical, not ideological, understanding of God. Equilibrium is a divine state. Thus, God must have created the universe in his attributes. Now we conceive equilibrium as broken and are feeling a pain from the wound. An artistic act is, at least for me, a reflection upon such a reality and embodies a meaning for healing.

Next to Faust's creation hangs a masterful work of near perfect realism in pencil and oil by Shin-Hye Park that the artist has titled, simply, number 8. Here, some version of the Garden of Eden is depicted on nine separate panels of canvas. These beautiful scenes of peace and seclusion are interrupted, however, when the viewer recognizes that the center panel contains a glimpse of the female form. Here perhaps is Eve in her garden, and the intrusion of temptation and of the apple itself lays only on the horizon. Park's work forces the viewer to recognize the vast dissimilarity between this pre-lapsarian world and our own.
NY Arts Magazine, November/December, "Apple Appeal", Whitney May, Page 106

Equilibrium is a divine state.
God must have created the universe in his attributes.
The forbidden fruit is an emblem of an act that brings in disequilibrium.

Now we conceive equilibrium as broken and are feeling a pain from the wound.
Then an artistic act is, at least for me, a reflection upon such a reality and embodies a meaning for healing.
I want to return to the state of Eden through artistic approach.

Shin-Hye Park brings the show back to a more meditative state. Her Landscape oil painting is a delicate snapshot of the water’s edge at the beach. The realistic depiction uses soft colors to reflect on that place where two worlds meet, where the known and unknown come together—like the ebb and flow of sleep and waking state. The rich sand and textured waves are created with a patient technique from this Korean artist. One can almost hear the hushed murmurs of the sea, the swallowed noise of the world, the distant birds enjoying the breeze.


from Sleep - Simone Cappa