summer light

Description

Summer light, summer heat, summer feelings...
Calm and intense summer moments

One day, when light shines on the window curtain, a child thinks of summer. The summer that a child remembers is as unfamiliar as the feel of new sneakers on her feet, and as intense as the smell of sunlight rising from her hair or the cries of cicadas ringing in her ears. As the child leaves the house with a suitcase in tow, a red glow comes into view. A child going on vacation will now pass through a hot summer. 『Summer Light』 is a picture book that moves quietly toward the depths of summer. Images that delicately capture the sense of the season continue, leading us into summer. Author Moon Ji-na vividly conveys the air and emotions of a summer day with her free and bold strokes.

Summer colors painted with oil pastels

『Summer Light』 shows a child's vacation journey, and the scenes follow the movement of light. The summer light expressed in yellow passes through the red hairbrush, the child's red sneakers, and the red truck heated by the sun, and jumps into the bright red flesh of the watermelon. Red then green. Green birds pecking at the heat, green trees climbing over the fence, green tennis courts radiating heat, and a cool breeze blowing through the green forest where the grass sways. As the day passes and night comes, the summer light hides its strong and harsh energy and becomes softer. The yellow moon rose over the highway in the middle of the night, becoming a yellow light shining from a rest area, and then suddenly becoming the yellow ray of the morning sun rising on the horizon, shining powerfully again. And the destination of the vacation, the blue sea. The ever-changing light of summer repeatedly grows smaller and larger within the screen, creating a flowing flow. Landscapes drawn with oil pastels in red, green, yellow, black, and blue will make you feel the taste of summer like taking a bite of a rich, juicy fruit.

The hot summer is gone and the light remains

Memories of last summer will remain in fragments, like snapshots taken accidentally while traveling or random notes written down. Collecting the pieces of summer is remembering summer. 『Summer Light』 collects the moments seen, heard, and felt on a summer day and writes down the sentences calmly, as if writing in a diary. The time spent playing in the forest with the wind blowing was like “the grass gently dancing,” and the moment waiting for the sunrise while driving on the highway toward the sea all night was like “in a car full of radio songs,” and the feeling of waves rippling. Write it down as “movement of a rubber tube.” These are summer sentences written by the author with his body's senses wide open. If you read these sentences out loud, the picture book may quietly speak to you. 'How do you remember summer?' If you can't remember, open the window curtains. Because the light of summer will always pour down like a shower.