When an artist uses video media as a tool for artistic expression, he or she often aims to try to be faithful to its characteristic function for narration and recording. Cho l-Su, however, is interested in finding the right time and place to capture an image when it is in a poetically charged moment. His attitudes towards a landscape or a scene are often the amalgamation of his own personal history, the state of unconsciousness and his journey through time; and the images he captures faithfully follow the musical structure for which he is in earnest quest. In this particular work, the artist shows a video art that combines his dreamlike experience at Upo Swamp covered by dense fog and music of primal structure that reflects the stream of unconsciousness.
Cho often speaks of ‘a static state that exists between what flows and what stops’, a metaphorical expression of the artist’s quest for original forms within the unconscious. For him, the process of his artistic quest is his personal life while his ‘digital work faithful to the structure of music’ is the contact point by which the artist shares the original forms with viewers. It is always important for his work to maintain a musical structure not just because it is a way of storytelling but because it is connected with the structure of unconsciousness. Cho believes that he can communicate with viewers via the ‘unconscious resonance’ taking place at the moment the contact is made. That is why he advises viewers to look at his work not by applying any theory or philosophical concept but by emotion and with an open heart.
