Contemporary S. Korean artist Shin Sun-Mi's work is full of fairies, whom she calls "Ant Sprites". They are dressed in old, traditional Korean "Han-bok" clothing, as they play with sleeping humans and cats. She states: "A quiet moment is detected in a place where the boundary between dream and reality is unclear and where it's visually unnoticed. Grown-ups try to deny such witness regarding it as coincidence or mistake. The 'Ant Sprite' series was created in order to capture the existence of miracle that is often missed into drawing and moreover to inculcate the innocence and purity of childhood that is lost when we grow up."
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Shin Sun-Mi, While You Were Sleeping, 2008
Shin Sun-Mi, While You Were Sleeping, 2008
Shin Sun-Mi, While You Were Sleeping, 2008
