Wonsook Kim Linton paints with signs as compressed as the images of dreams. Her paintings are equally vivid and vague, and, for that reason, they take possession of the vivid reality of our world, whose meaning is forever indeterminate. Wonsook Kim Linton's art reveals not so much the object world but its other side, not so much the part that is filled but the part that is empty. It uncovers the hidden roots rather than the skin of the quotidian. In this perspective, her painting serves an ethical function with a distinct voice regarding the practice of living, which echoes "empty the self". Not to fill the self is not to fix meaning. Endlessly emptying the self is the only possible way to live with the flow. Inevitably and ceaselessly confronting the world, I live it and the world lives me. This inseparable relationship appears in her painting. By emptying us we allow others and the earth to flow in and flow out. That way we can be happy, blissfully emptying the self.
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