$2,312
Ripples (2024) is an 80 × 80 cm circular work from the Fractus series, assembled from forty-nine curved canvas pieces painted in acrylic. A stone dropped into water sends out rings that widen without end, and the piece is composed from the center outward, each layer repeating the shape of the one before it at a larger scale. Deep blue at the core gives way to lighter tones toward the edge, so the expansion reads as both form and color. For the artist this is how a small action travels, connected to everything it meets and arriving somewhere far from where it began.
Artwork details+
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas (49 pieces)
- Size
- 80 cm x 80 cm x 3 cm
- Year
- 2024
- Signature
- Signed on the reverse
- Edition
- Unique work
- Certificate
- Certificate of Authenticity issued by the gallery
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Jinjoo Ku is a painter who captures the recurring patterns of nature and the shifting processes of emotion on canvas, exploring through two bodies of work the point at which phenomena of vastly different scales converge on a single underlying principle. Slow Diffusion draws on the chemistry of recrystallization, in which pure crystals are gradually separated from an impure substance, extending this as a metaphor for the purification of emotion. A longtime observer of the sea, Ku turns toward the moments when cold and fearful feelings begin to seep in, rendering through stillness and a recalibration of inner temperature the crystallization that unfolds within. Fractus expands this gaze to the macroscopic structures of nature, translating the fractal self-similarity found in the branching of trees, the coursing of rivers, the layered edges of clouds and the contours of mountain ranges into a metaphor for the complex networks of life and human connection, as the artist attends to the way individual moments weave tightly together to complete a single coherent narrative. Running through both series is the belief that instability and stability, disorder and order, ultimately complete each other within a single cycle. Through painting, Ku reveals that the crystallization of emotion and the fractals of nature, though seemingly operating at entirely different scales, are governed by the same principle, inviting viewers to reflect on the repetitions and connections woven through their own lives.
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Ripples (2024) is an 80 × 80 cm circular work from the Fractus series, assembled from forty-nine curved canvas pieces painted in acrylic. A stone dropped into water sends out rings that widen without end, and the piece is composed from the center outward, each layer repeating the shape of the one before it at a larger scale. Deep blue at the core gives way to lighter tones toward the edge, so the expansion reads as both form and color. For the artist this is how a small action travels, connected to everything it meets and arriving somewhere far from where it began.
Artwork details+
- Medium
- Acrylic on canvas (49 pieces)
- Size
- 80 cm x 80 cm x 3 cm
- Year
- 2024
- Signature
- Signed on the reverse
- Edition
- Unique work
- Certificate
- Certificate of Authenticity issued by the gallery
Shipping & taxes+
- Ships from the gallery's location (set per work, defaults to the gallery address)
- Cost calculated at checkout by destination
- Optional full insurance in transit
- Usually ships within 10 business days, fine-art packed
- In-person pickup available for some works (no shipping fee)
- Listed price may include VAT applicable in the seller's country or the work's place of shipment
- Duties, import VAT/GST, customs fees, and other taxes in the buyer's country are not included and are the buyer's responsibility
- These are assessed by the destination customs authority and billed separately by the carrier
- Sales tax may be added at checkout depending on jurisdiction
$2,312