Emotions Dwelled in Technical Media Art 

Park Sang-hwa - Savor the Scenery by Taking a Stroll touches on an ultimate coexistence between nature and humans through their interactions. Park Sang-hwa hopes human civilization can be in concert with nature with no incongruity between them. During the early years of his career, Park, who sought a solution on the scene of criticism from the critical viewpoint of civilization, had more closely addressed our everyday life through the cognitive framework of ‘rest and thought’. 

His insightful idea on ‘rest and thought’ that gained prominence in his works approximately 10 years ago was derived from his serious consideration on the meaning of life. Park refers to ‘self-reflection within nature’ as an alternative way for contemporary humans to find solace themselves and heal their wounds. In his work’s formation process the working methods have changed from the way of unilaterally conveying a subject to the way in which the viewer actually feels his work. He allows the viewers to touch or walk through his works, or he makes a difference to images on the screen by the minute using motion detection sensors. He also evokes the sense of being on the spot of an imaginary nature by designing an instrument by which the viewer is able to feel the entire space. He has particularly doubled the sense of being on the spot in the way of projection mapping of natural scenery on a huge fragmented film screen or mesh screen. 

Park wishes that a paradise not be an imaginary place but a realistic space linked to his real life, while the bottom line of his work is the nature in reality or the sites of human life. He narrates a utopia in reality as our ancestors did while gathering natural scenes he met in his surroundings, including the landscapes of Mudeungsan, the closest nature to downtown Gwangju.