With a dream-like quality that lends towards the naïve, Ha’s work mesmerizes the viewer with the suddenness of colors and the suddenness of movement. Her paintings are filled with contradictory features as wild strokes and fierce colors emerge from a serene background, with the uneven surface texture of her pieces adding liveliness to them. A single word for her paintings should be Love, love for life with its dreadful as well as sweet unexpected changes, love for flowers which are hopes and happiness, love for cats with all their grace, and love for landscapes painted in a unique way.
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