There is a kind of secret rhetoric and the atmosphere which makes this rhetoric possible within Hee-Choung Yi's works. He reinterprets our traditional symbols and fills a canvas with them so elaborately. There are such familiar figures like mountains, fields, birds and butterflies but sometimes they come to us unfamiliar. This familiarity is our memories of home town hidden beneath our mind and unfamiliarity is the vague shadow of our home town where we no longer return to. Hee-Choung Yi connects this familiarity and unfamiliarity on his canvas through unique composition. Each colored points gather together into a form and become a background. He links each form with colored sections as if to embroider and connects the enter and parts of a canvas. The true character of his own formative languages lies in the very connection.
Hee-Choung Yi's reinterpretation on Korean symbols now proceeds to existence itself which is the origin of symbols. He does not simply define existence but also inquire into the meaning of it. His skillful brushwork becomes a story connecting the abyss between the past and the present.