Baby owl camouflaged by wallpaper # 2, 2019

Mixed medium on paper

8 x 8 inches


This work is one of a camouflaged theme series.
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Spotted seal in coral reef , 2019

Acrylic on canvas

16 x 20 inches  

19 x 23 inches with frame

This spotted seal is natural monument No. 331 in South Korea.   South Korea has put forth effort to save this seal.

Their natural habitat, and natural breeding ground,  is the arctic.  Climate change caused this creature difficulty  breeding.

Hunting by humans, lack of food and other factors have added to their distress ..

I was inspired by this beautiful spotted seal and coral reef, which is also in danger of extinction,

to make this work to raise awareness of the endangered species... the spotted seal.

Lydia Moon Hee Kim

Memories in black and white

I was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea.
Most of my memories of childhood are in black and white.
Even the Street Signs were in black and white, black and white photography, buildings, people dressed shabby, a bare mountain, black and white newspapers for street food packing and so on...
1960s and 1970s South Korea was developing nation. Korean didn't have fancy colorful life like Korean has today.
Until 1980 Korean government didn't allow the nation to sell color TV sets nor color TV broadcasting, even though Korea already had assembly line for color TV and was able to broadcasting in color.

My family and I were watching shows and films in black and white like other Koreans.
Especially in weekend My family and I were watching black and white western movies.
Watching TV was like having family time together after having a long day.
My family and I learned western culture and their ideas of beauty through bw films

As a child, I created and shaped ideas of beauty in black and white.

In these two paintings I overlap those memories in black and white and ongoing my life

Classic beauty blended in floral wallpaper # 2, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

9 x 12 inches

                                                                        

Classic beauty blended in floral wallpaper # 3, 2019

Acrylic on wood

10 x 10 inches

 Classic beauty blended in floral wallpaper #5, 2019

Acrylic on panel

10 x 10 inches

Classic beauty blended in floral wallpaper, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

16 x 20 inches

Classic beauty blended in fox pattern
Mixed medium on paper
12 x 9 inches

                                             

                                    a Cat camouflaged by yellow flower, 2019

     Acrylic on canvas

         7 x 5 inches

                                       
                             Cat camouflaged by floral wallpaper, 2019

Acrylic on panel

 10 x 10 inches

Cat camouflaged by plushie dolls, 2019

Acrylic on  panel

10 x10 inches

This piece is still available. Please click link below
https://cactusgalleryla.com/collections/cats/products/cat-camouflaged-by-plushie-dolls-by-artist-lydia-moon-hee-kim

Different stages of flowers can be found in a field

Phases Starting with the seed stage, germination, growth, reproduction, pollination, and then spreading new 

seeds.

I have captured all these plant’s different events in a canvas.

While the plants/flowers repeating their cycle of life, other creations like a chick, which in

one of the series of stages in form, finds a place to hide to protect its life and so that it can

continue to move on through the different stage of life.

  Cosmos flowers in a field and hidden chick, 2018

Acrylic on Canvas

10 x 10 x 1.5 inches 

winter snowy owl and fox camouflaged by snow and floral pattern

  

Places covered by white snow

In winter, animals also…

Keep themselves warm with white fur.

To winter animals, white fur means survival.

Small and weak ones need white fur to keep themselves invisible 

from predators.

Predators need white fur to keep themselves invisible for hunting.

In, this manmade world, humans are over running animal habitats, and 

the animals are adopting to the humans… to survive.

In this painting, the rose pattern of tapestry in the trees and ground, symbolize 

mans environment.

The Repetition of the roses looks pretty, but forces new survival tricks for animals.

winter snowy owl and fox camouflaged by snow and floral pattern

acrylic on canvas

16 x 20 inches