SUNHE HONG

The Process of 

Emotional Abstractions: Metaphysical Energy Interplay 

"Everything is energy and that is all there is to it."

- Albert Einstein

"Information is light; light is information. The more you become informed, the more you alter your frequencies. You are electromagnetic creatures.

Everything that you are, you broadcast to everyone else."

-  Barbara Marciniak

In 2018, I realized that our emotions are charged energy and we each have a frequency that other people interact with. My Emotional Abstractions process begins with the energy vibrations I experience at the right moment. When I feel the right vibration, I invite people---sometimes strangers, sometimes those I know---to bring their energies to the improvisational interplay. The lines of this series begins with a single energy marking that the participants leave on blank paper. During this process, you never know what you're going to get, like when you come up to a bar on a Saturday night. I want to learn how my energy interacts with others' and how I express myself, and this process has proved to be exciting, unpredictable, surprising, and as unique as each individual who participates in it. My artwork is always playful, so no matter how dark the energy that comes up is, I find a way to play and engage with it. I freeze time and energy, the two things that make up our whole existence, in these paintings.