jieunlee
Space - Still Architecture
Human - The Familiar Stranger
Time - Bloom in the Night
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Space : Still Architecture
My work focuses on moments of stillness found in urban architecture—scenes in which an event has already passed, or is about to begin. Rather than depicting the city as a site of action, I translate the quiet tension and emotional density embedded in these spaces into painterly form. Familiar landscapes are rendered unfamiliar, as static scenes are reread through a language of sensation and time.
By excluding or marginalizing human figures, I emphasize a state of eventless stillness. Recurrent architectural grids, windows, and wall rhythms function as formal structures that contain emotion. Through restrained color palettes and parallel viewpoints, architecture shifts from a physical setting into a vessel holding condensed time and feeling.
In the Still Architecture series, the city becomes an inner space—unmoving yet resilient. Stillness is not absence but accumulation, where traces of time and emotion quietly persist on the surface.
