The Garden of Trace - NOMA Art Book / illust book

The Garden of Traces, the first collection of paintings by NOMA, a Korean illustrator and watercolor painter 110 works, 80 sketches, 11 docents, a total of 230 pages B4 Size (257×364 mm) hardcover binding Premium paper for thick watercolors --------------------------------------------- The Garden of Trace Here’s a little garden. With dots and lines, a chaotic yet harmonious flourishing of colors and water drops, The garden, fully stacked up with my traces from the beginning of my presence is here. The traveler of the other place I’ve seen for the first time, the countless beings I had thought were erased, they have all permeated by steps, built up a tiny, little garden. I just, loved that garden. One day, people with full of wounds has come and said ; No one recognizes this little garden. You Should follow the road we take to the upper place. Once you find the jewels there, this little garden must be more trivial than a dust. They came day by day, saying the same. I eventually said to forget that garden. Left the tender soil of garden, lying my body on the desert, left the tickling leaves, wandering through the thornbush, saying I would never try to find or go back to the garden. On the road they told me to take, my wings once flied with birds were clipped, my legs once danced with trees were broken. When everything gets blurred when my eyes got blinded, I found a light, Blooming like a haze. The place I arrived, saying I finally found it, was that little garden I said never to look for. The garden secured me from the rough rainstorm, comforts and embraces me full of wounds. Just then I realized. This little garden, wholly built with my traces is far greater than the jewels I was eager to find. I could flawlessly be as myself, only in this garden. The jewel I already had from my presence. The garden I built and grew with me. The place only of my own. Just as always, the place I'll live in. The only place I can rest, and all I have. My little, cozy ‘Garden of Trace.’