Sitting without Seat 1961

Lee Hang Sung made this print, Sitting without Seat, with such a playful and enigmatic process. It’s like a visual puzzle that invites us to piece together our own narrative. The texture feels almost like a map, charting a course through a dreamscape. The colors are muted, earthy, allowing the forms to take center stage. My eyes keep getting drawn back to the figure at the bottom, with its swirling lines and fractured outline, it looks like a body caught mid-motion. This piece has the same energy that I find in the work of Philip Guston. Like Guston, Hang Sung embraces ambiguity, inviting us to question what we see, to embrace the possibilities of the unfinished, the unresolved. What is this seat? Where are these people? It's all open to interpretation.