Ice Civilization to Disappearance: Traces of Vanishing and the Material Archive

Disappearance Landscape: The surface unfolds like a cross-section of land after vanishing, revealing fractures and isolated fragments of color left by disappearance.

Frozen Trace: The pigment, as if frozen in place, manifests the paradoxical state in which memory is simultaneously erased and recorded. Abstract This study does not reduce painting to a mere act of formal composition but proposes it as an irreversible archive that records the process of disappearance. The two works embody the instability of civilization and the residue of memory through the spreading, freezing, and cracking of pigments. The traces left behind as ice melts resemble geological cross-sections, generating a visual language akin to the ruins of civilization. Keywords: Ice Civilization, Disappearance, Archive, Trace, Materiality 초록(Abstract) 본 연구는 회화를 단순한 조형 행위로 환원하지 않고, 소멸의 과정을 기록하는 비가역적(不可逆的) 아카이브로 제시한다. 두 작품은 안료의 번짐, 응결, 균열의 과정을 통해 문명의 불안정성과 기억의 잔여를 형상화한다. 얼음이 녹으며 남긴 흔적들은 지질학적 단면을 연상시키며, 이는 마치 문명의 폐허를 닮은 시각적 언어로 변모한다. 키워드(Keywords): 얼음-문명, 소멸, 아카이브, 흔적, 물질성