“There were plants throughout the neighborhood, like night-blooming jasmine and overgrown bougainvillea, but it wasn’t the same. I wanted to experience them. So I brought plants inside my apartment — a hanging terrarium, a potted cactus, and so on. These plants brought back memories and inspired me, just like the art I had hanging on the walls. So it seemed natural to create a book that combined the two.”
Zio Baritaux
...“I thought of cactuses inadvertently as the material to express texture when my Inter-View series was coming to an end in 2006. I expose my interest in the surface of the object in both. It is to make the texture that my eyes see magnified. I draw as if I am caressing the object. The cactus series is a good material to express various drawing skills of oil painting that I acquired through the Inter-View series."
LEE KWang HO