Time and space have no meaning in artists' imagination. They try to create original images which have never existed in the world. But artists cannot transcend nature at all no matter how creative they are. It is why all artistic images have been originated from their archetype of nature.
Human life from birth to death is filled with direct and indirect experiences which have inseparable relation to nature. In this context, nature means everything unartistical including human beings. The sculptures of Na Young Han are also closely bound up with nature.
She has been inspired by nature. She has perceived the perfect beauty of nature with her artistic sense. She has created artistic beauty by falling in with natural beauty. Her observation on nature is not limited to things with concrete forms but to natural phenomena such as rainbows.
She has approached to nature practically rather than rationally. The titles of 'Chat', 'Nest', 'Woman's Mind', 'Dialogue', 'Child's Mind', 'Love', 'Eagle', ’Direction', 'Life' reveal the artist's deep interest in human life and nature. Her sculptures interlink nature and human beings who have feelings of joy, anger, sadness, and happiness.
Especially, she has been more concerned about invisible emotions than visible appearances. She has admired human beings with innate pure hearts as one of natural beauty. Dynamic living things in nature such as human beings and birds have caught her eyes. Especially, she has given unusual heed to not only the natural figures of human beings but also the heartstrings of human life, which became the themes of her works.
Therefore, the natural figures of human beings with their own feelings and thoughts answer for form and content of her sculptures at the same time. Na Young did not copy human figure as they were. She has made effort to describe both the external shapes and the internal mind of human beings living in their daily life.
It seems that she emphasized on the irrational part of human beings rather than their rational one . It seems that her works craved for warm-hearted gazing rather cool-headed reasoning. The artist has alleviated people's tough emotions with friendly-looking human figurations She continuously interpreted and reinterpreted the natural figures of human beings.
As a result, she could make new images which were completely different from the original one. She replaced concreteness with abstractness. For example, she omitted, intimated and symbolized the natural figure of a human being. She simplified it at most by excluding eyes, noses, limbs, etc.
Sometimes her sculptures only with brief lines and bald volume fai l to remind us the characteristic figures of human beings. A wider view would help us to more easily find out human figuration in her abstract works of art. In contrast with her concrete pieces which simplified the animal objects like birds or hens, the abstract ones dismantled and then reconstructed the human objects.
In this wake, Han successfully condensed and intensified the natural beauty of human beings. In other words, Na Young Han has portrayed the simple and clear images of human beings with minimum lines and volumes. The unique shape of a volume produces elegantly-curved lines and surfaces.
In addition, the sculpturer has showed a preference to the asymmetrical structure. Nonetheless her artistic works have also acquired a sense of security under tactful balance control. We can find out different images in the front and in the rear of her works. They are indeed like sculptures in the round.
Na Young has challenged the stereotyped scheme of human sculptures. She dexterously and artistically represented two ges iiman one sculpture. Therefore, the natural figures of human being in her works ironically looked more like those of seeds ornsects. Amazingly, these abstract works are not artificial at all because did not distort the natural beauty. Rather, they contributed to restoration of natural purity.