The scenery of Purgatory

SIM_Scenery 

08.04.2023 / 28.04.2023 

 

SIM_Moby depicts “purgatory,” a place between heaven and hell, before birth/death. From he realization SIM_Moby had as a child, “Giving birth to a life is the same as giving birth o a death.” he explores and creates the free alternate space known as “SIM_Purgatory” where the law of life/death does not apply.

The reality-connected afterlife known as SIM_Purgatory is revealed in a variety of 2D landscapes by using current world concepts as motifs. In the immaterial media, SIM_Moby combines these themes with his own experience, Asian identity, monstrous form, and imagination from his previous lives. This purgatory world seeks an eternal utopia free of extinction, and in order to achieve this permanence, the first work began with physical materials and is completed digitally without physical destruction after scanning.

Images that start from physical materials and are completed digitally are transmitted through digital displays, or printed with various physical materials and summoned to the present world. SIM_Purgatory, which has physical properties due to printing, gives viewers an illusion that makes them wonder whether the piece was originally painted in oil or acrylic, or whether it was finished digitally before being printed. To achieve this, he uses his unique concept known as “SIM Moby (SAMSARA Erosion of Megabyte)”, which is defined as a conversion of the material’s texture into digital form.

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062 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
“Land of ‘Humility’ that shines forever seen
through the eyes of the Almighty”
What do you see in the eyes of those who can look down on everything?
The more you try to express humility, the further away you become from it.

What message does the purgatory scenery convey to me?
The smoke from the golden land illuminates my late vanity.

 

 

066 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
“Flame of ‘Temperance’,
which burns the mountains of impulse”
A land where even the echoes have disappeared
and the mountains that rise like an awl.

The feel of the bow against your fingertips tells me
to hold back the target I want to shoot.

Even in the flames that burn through the skin
there is no darkness that vibrates as an illusion.

 

 

028 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of  ‘Melt’
Even a day spent in cold longing The weight of lite I endured
Will it heal as time and I go deeper?
Will it melt into the arms of memories?

 

 

 

058 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of “Charity”
Subtitle
“Rain of ‘Charity’ on the hands of non-existents who want to be saved”
In purgatory, someplace where there is no sound the hands had been awaiting salvation for so long.
Between lite and death, a silent scream and love, love, love liberally sprinkled

 

 

 

064 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of “Chastity”
Subtitle
“Gates of ‘Chastity’ painted in gold”
Under the excitement-colored sky my heart has become gold.
Didn’t wait for respect.
lt’s okay without something naked.
lf you can’t hide your shabbiness, rather show me everything.
 

 

056 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of “Patience”
Subtitle
“Path of ‘Patience’ filled with life’s thorns”
Barely carne,
A fresh world and sweet delight
The breeze tickling your ears and my soft footsteps Hope the door to the golden road now opens.

 

072 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of “Purification”
The scene in which the various purple sins are purified by the light of purgatory alludes to the function of purgatory as a place to go before entering heaven.
 

 

030 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021. 
Purgatory of “Pain”
In a cold wind, my deep tears my vast pain
030 SIM_Scenery is inspired from SIM_Moby ‘ s personal experience of losing all relationship for a moment.

 

 

043 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of “Fruition”
What route do the world’s unanswered questions take?
This purgatory shows the outcomes of life’s ever-changing course. Why are we born and what fruit do we bear?
This painting shows when someone bears sorne result in real world, at the same time his fruit blooms in purgatory.
 

 

094 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of “Stubbornness”
The scenery of purgatory is made by imitating the appearance of the present world, and 094 SIM_Scenery shows purgatory in the form of ‘:::;:::! (li!il. Stubbornness)’.
 

 

073 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of “Doctrine”
Doctrine refers to a system of beliefs defined as truth.
lf evil is defined as chaos, doctrine can mean a system to avoid falling into evil, and to restrain chaos.
Doctrine would define the relationship of many beings of the free will. What is the front and what is the back.
What is outside and what is inside.
What is below and what is above
 
 
023 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of “Doubt”
There are only questions floating in the sky When anxieties are reflected in wet water My steps keep getting lost in my thoughts still don’t know where to go.
Leaves swaying on dried branches that was beautiful sometimes
After watching for a long time, the early dawn comes.
 

 

021 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of “Memory”
Purple beings that extinguish memories fill the space of purgatory, but in the middle of them, there will be a form of memories that light up leisurely.
 

 

032 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Subtitle “Emile”
What the hell is heaven?
-The world of a sacrificed baby
This piece was inspired by the Korean historical tale of “Emile Bell” . A baby dedicated to heaven.
What is heaven like for that baby?
The sound of a baby calling its mother, ‘Emile ‘
The world inside the bell unfolds when you open the bell. The baby’s purgatory formed by the silhouette of the voice.
 
025 SIM_Scenery
Digital Painting (started from physical), 7016 x 9922 Pixel, 2021.
Purgatory of “Sabbath”
lnspired from the song “Heaven and Hell” (by Black Sabbath) Sing me a song, you’re a singer
Do me a wrong, you’re a bringer of evil The Devil is never a maker
The less that you give, you’re a taker
The lover of life’s not a sinner The ending is just a beginner
The closer you get to the meaning
The sooner you know that you’re dreaming

 

SIM_Moby
His pseudonym, ‘SIM_Moby’, also means the methodology for constructing Purgatory by the artist, ‘Erosion Reincarnation of Megabytes’. SIM_Moby is a texture created through multiple erosion and corrosion in digital, it's defined as a technology that generates a distinct sense of density in the world of pixels. The corroded touch of the material that has undergone such digital erosion is linked to the noise texture of the VHS screen from the 1990s without undergoing physical decay.
This seeks the ultimate sense of aesthetics “Reincarnation of painting” that the digital medium, JPG recording format, and the purgatory worldview are attempting to achieve.

 

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SIM_Scenery VADB Contemporary Latin American Art Platform
https://vadb.org/events/the-scenery-of-purgatory

 

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