lydia kim

Thursday, June 28, 2018

My Best Friend

I love humor. Humor is the best friend in my life. Humor is the best tool to overcome my anxiety and all my troubles.
I make my art with humor. I enjoy humor while I am working to create my Art.
Humor rewards when I hear laughter from those who view my Art!

Camouflaged theme paintings

Whether animals are wild or domesticated, being cute is just not enough to

survive in this manmade world.

Often cute and small can be seeing as fragile.

They need to be smarter, faster, stronger and so on..

For the co existence with human-beings in this manmade world,

they need to adopt and learn the ways of humans to survive.

I think of very cute animals such as a miniature pig and a baby owl..

In these paintings of camouflage theme,

I chose a baby owl and baby miniature pig to show

how they adopt to the environment of the manmade world and survive.

This miniature pig and owl learn that being cute is not enough to

survive in world.

In this manmade space which has floral pattern wall paper, this pig and

owl disguise into wall paper as a means of survival in the manmade world.

I used my experience of textile design for floral patterned background on

this painting.

-Lydia Moon Hee Kim-

Baby pig camouflaged by plushie dolls, 2018

Acrylic on canvas

12 x 12 inches

BABY PIG CAMOUFLAGED BY FLORAL WALLPAPER , 2018

Acrylic on canvas

11” x 14” inches

BABY OWL CAMOUFLAGED BY WALLPAPER, 2018

Acrylic and colored pencil on canvas

12” x 12” inches

Friday, April 18, 2014

I am making art work with humor. Humor is universal. Regardless of age and culture, people are amused by or laugh at something funny. The best reward from making humorous art is the laughter from viewers. The pursuit of a smile is my goal when I paint. I believe that humor is significant because it reveals truths.

-Lydia Moon Hee Kim-

Camouflage series #2, 2018

acrylic on canvas

11 x 9 inches

Winter Snowy Owl and Fox Camouflage, 2018

Acrylic on canvas

16 x 18 inches

Camouflage, 2017

Acrylic on canvas

12 x 12 inches

I have merged my experience of textile graphic design with fine art to produce this painting of a piglet hiding among the flowers to use their beauty as camouflage for a moment of serenity.