๊ฐ๋ฅ์ ํ์ธ๊ณ
์ ์ฐํจ(๋ง๋ํ/๋ฌผ)๊ณผ ํ(๋ถ์ ๊ฒฌ๋๋/๋์์ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํจ) ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์์ฐ(ํํ/์ฌ๋ฃ์ ์์ฒ) ์ด ์ธ ๊ฐ์ง๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฅ๋ผ๋ ์์
์์ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ ํ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ฑํ๋ ํฐ ๋ฉ์ด๋ฆฌ ์์๋ค.
์๊ฐ๋ โ์ ์ฐํจ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ ๋ง๋ํ ํโ๊ณผ โ๋ถ์ ๋ฌ๊ถ์ง๋ฉฐ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํด์ง๋ ๋์โ ์ด ๋ ๊ฐ์ง ํน์ฑ ๋ชจ๋๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ โํโ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ฌ๋ฃ๊ฐ ๋ณธ์ธ์ ํํํ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ ํฉํ ๋งค์ฒด๋ก ์ฌ๊ธด๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง 1250๋์ ๊ฐ๋ง๋ถ ์์์ ์ถค์ถ๋ โํโ์ ๊ตณ๊ณ ๋จ๋จํด์ง๋ ๋์์ ์์ย ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์๋ ๊นจ์ง ์ ์๋ โ๋์โ์ ์์ฑ์ผ๋ก ๋ณํด๋ฒ๋ฆฐ๋ค. ๋ง๋ํ ์์์ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํ ์์๋ฅผ ๋ ๋ค ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ ํ์ ํตํด ์๊ฐ๋ ํ์ ์ป์ง๋ง, ๋์์ ๊ฒฌ๊ณ ํด์ง๋ ค๋ ๋
ธ๋ ฅ์๋ ์ธ์ ๋ ๊นจ์ง ์ ์๋ค๋ ํ์ ์์ฑ์์ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋์ง๊ฐ์ ๋๋ผ๋ ๋ฏํ๋ค.
๋ง์์ด ๋ง์์ง๋ ๊ฐํจ์ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ์์ฐ๋ฌผ๊ณผ ํน์ ํ๋ จ๋ ์๋ช
์ฒด๋ผ๊ณ ์๊ฐ๋ ๋งํ๋ค. ์ด๋ '๋ฒฝ์ ์์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ถ์ด์๋ ๋๋ง๋ฑ, ๋์์์ญ์ด, ๋, ๋ฐญ, ์ฌ์ฑ์ด, ์๋ค์ง ์๋ ๊ฝ'๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ด ์์ฐ์ ์์๋ก ์ ๋ชฉ์ ์ง๋ ์๊ฐ์ ์ฑํฅ์ ํตํด ์์๋ณผ ์ ์๋ค.
Flexibility (soft clay or water), strength (pottery's resilience by withstanding fire), and nature (material and source of shape) are the significant elements that constitute Gangryu's clay world and the artisan.
The artist regards "clay," as the most suitable medium for self-expression, possessing both the characteristics of "clay's flexibility and softness" and "clay's resilience developed through exposure to fire," However, as the clay dances in the kiln fire at 1250 degrees, it transforms into the properties of "pottery," becoming firm and solid but susceptible to breaking under a small impact. Through the clay, which contains both soft and robust elements, the artist gains strength, yet at the same time, feels a sense of homogeneity, recognizing the clay's inherent vulnerability despite efforts to become robust.
The artist asserts that possessing strength with a clear mind is akin to natural elements and certain trained living organisms. This is evident in the aritst's tendency to title works with natural elements, such as "lizards (securely attached to the wall), dojamonkey, dol, field, tadpole, and witherless flowers."