CreatripTeam

At the 2025 Eco Art Fair ground exhibition, artists depict life’s struggles and memory through layered mountain imagery and vivid colors on hanji (traditional Korean paper). One artist likens life to 'cheopcheop-sanjang' (a phrase meaning many layered mountains), using red to represent blood and life and white for renewal—sweat and tears. Paintings show densely packed roofs on slopes that glow like lights, evoking homes of displaced refugees (piranmin). Another artist recalls childhood in a coal-mining village, now ruins, rendered with a diasporic sensibility—surreal motifs like flying turtles and houses on carts. A second-generation displaced person from Abai Village in Sokcho sculpts communal memory into textured, rugged canvases that feel weathered by northern winds and sea air, yet hint at renewal as new shoots emerge after fallen trees.