Kyoungmug Park: A Curious Cat

"The Green Cat on Canvas" carries a different meaning from the playful humor found in earlier cat paintings — it suggests that harmony emerges when we acknowledge and embrace our differences.

By depicting, on a single canvas, a green cat colored in the hues of nature alongside a landscape in the style of East Asian painting, Kyoungmug Park expresses an order of harmony in which the world and nature move forward together. Through "A Curious Cat," the artist wants to convey that the world can only find harmony once we begin by acknowledging the differences of those who feel unfamiliar to us — people who seem similar to ourselves yet ultimately carry their own distinct ways of thinking and seeing.