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The Faceless Ghost “I provide an opportunity to bring to life faces that are all to easily passed over, ignored. I try to create a new meaning in our modern era, where meeting another person is often done indirectly – on the phone, on Facebook - instead of meeting each other in reality, to meet each other face to face.” - Jaeyeol Han, Artist. Remember those scary stories we’d tell one another as kids? The ones about monsters? Well in Korea a frequent character of such stories is the ‘faceless ghost’. This ghost appears with his or her back turned towards the storyteller, but when the ghost turns and shows his or her ‘face’ there appears a blank surface smooth and egg-like. The reason ‘faceless ghost' is so scary is not only because it looks weird. It’s more how we recognise the face as a body part. Artist Jaeyeol Han focuses on the human’s face as his sole subject. Instead of drawing a picturesque facsimile he depicts people who will always remain nameless. Han draws faces from which their names have been erased. To garner his muses Han focuses on interesting faces amongst the crowd. Han quickly sketches that face in a matter of minutes. These sketches later serve as the basis for paintings worked up in his studio. Glimpsed in passing and in public, unaware of being observed, some passersby briefly expose their emotional states. It’s these brief emotional states, these facial expressions that become the subject(s) of Han’s paintings. #chapeaulondon #chapeaublog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #wordsandpictures #amazing #london #lifestyle #jaeyeolhan #artist #painter #painterly #faces #facelessghost #korea #passersby #goethe