Interested in meditation and lyrical expression, Ko Kyung-Ho questions the role of art in our complex industrialized civilization. He sympathized with Monet, whose interests shifted from the outer world to his inner self in his later years. Paradoxically, Ko uses, as he calls it, ‘simple technology’ to create a serene atmosphere provided by nature as well as to create a space for meditation and contemplation. What he strives to bring out through his works is not an extreme of modern technology but spaces in between the extremes in which we can meditate and reflect. He basically wants to rediscover the value of meditation in the tradition of Eastern philosophy. It is easy, he argues, to see the flow of time through the physical changes of nature, though not many people feel this change in connection with themselves. He believes that the meaning of true beauty is, after all, in one’s mind.
