ARTIST STATEMENT

The main story of this concept came from my own experience. South Korea is where I am from and to purchase my dreams in a bigger world, I moved to the United States. When I irst moved, I was full of excitement but was also scared of the new, unfamiliar things around me. As a foreigner that is from outside the country, I needed to put efort to it in within the people and learn about the diferent culture and language. However, from that process I was able to make new relationships and make precious memories. I think this is something that everybody can relate to. It could be going to a new workplace, or even the irst day of school every year.

The experience of myself moving to a new environment and the people around me became my biggest inspiration. Like this, my vision of visual journey and storytelling originates from my own journey of life. It was always the big and small moments in everyday life that made my art special. Nuri is a project for me to show that aspect of life hidden in the story.

Throughout this project, storytelling and world building was the most important thing that I focused on. Growing up watching numerous animated ilms, what fascinated me the most was how the imaginative world was built, which got me into the ield of art. To build the world starting from the irst story plot to visualizing the concept was never easy. Therefore, I went back and watched ilms from diferent time periods and studied the basic plots of storytelling. This gave me a clue how to imply the message that I want to deliver to the viewers in the story. Then it became clear what design elements I would like to use for developing the idea visually.

Nuri was a project that was almost like putting my puzzle pieces of memories together. We encounter numerous new things as we live. Through this ilm I want my viewers to see how unfamiliar can turn into something special and it is just something we get to experience continuously through life. Like so, my goal as an artist is to share these puzzle pieces in life through creative artwork in various forms such as animation, game, and children’s books.

About The Artist

Seungmin is a Visual Development artist and an Illustrator who’s in love with Visual Storytelling. She was born in South Korea. She studied Visual Communication Design at Ewha Women’s University and continued her educational journey at Ringling College of Art and Design. The love and passion for creating an imaginative world made her pursue this dream up until now. Those dreams that she has kept in her heart made her hands, covered with graphite and paint, just keep swimming in her sketchbook. Every day of her life is her inspiration and she is always ready to keep swimming through the journey of Imagination.