Flickering Senses

The landscapes depicted in LIM Nosik’s paintings stem from his early, profound encounters with vast stretches of nature. Far from being mere reproductions, these landscapes embody layered sensations and emotions, inviting viewers into new spatial experiences. In his recent series, he overlays the depicted scenes with transparent oil pastels, blurring and smudging them—a process through which he senses the interplay between his subjects and himself. This produces surface textures that seem to hold the accumulation of time and space, along with ambiguous, hazy forms that, rather than asserting the object’s physical reality, evoke lyrical imagery. The fields of wildflowers and the drifting light—like mist—spread across the canvas capture the fleeting vitality of moments destined to vanish and be forgotten, tracing the contours of latent memories and sensations. Within these works, external form and inner vision, reality and poetic imagery layer upon one another, becoming an intimate soliloquy and confession that prompts us to rediscover the sensory depth inherent in painting.