Based on the fact that humans are existential beings, artist Kwan Oh Jun defines modern people as alienated beings, depressed (melancholy) beings, and anxious beings, and proceeds with the work of pictorial expression.

Existentialist philosophers saw human finitude as the fundamental cause of alienation and anxiety.

Camus believed that this absurdity made humans suffer through boredom and unfamiliarity.

Kierkegaard said that human beings are exiled from eternity to finitude and wander in solitude.

From this, factors such as despair, depression, and boredom that humans feel about their existence come into play.

This phenomenon was referred to as anxiety.

Sartre argued that human beings feel insecure from their freedom and possibility of managing and enduring everything alone.

Heidegger saw that the object of anxiety is Dasein itself.

He saw the fate of humans, who are thrown into the world regardless of one's will, and had to leave for an unknown place, as the source of anxiety.

Freud believed that when mourning for a lost object fails, sadness becomes fixed and abnormal emotional state becomes melancholy.

Slavoj Zizek said, ‘Melancholy is a feeling of losing something that you never owned in the first place.It comes from deceiving and pretending.owned in the first place.It comes from deceiving and pretending.

Slavoj Zizek insisted on amending ‘loss’ to ‘deficiency’ in Freud’s Melacoli discourse.

Melancholy deceives itself as if it had lost an object it had never possessed from the beginning.

It stems from pretending. This pretending is a gesture to hide ,the meaninglessness of existence and the resulting disappointment.

Like this, the alienation, depression (melancholy), and anxiety that modern people experience are all originating from the meaningless of human existence.

Adorno defines reality as untruth.

Adorno believes that intellect can define irrational pain that exists in reality, but cannot express it through experience, so he pins his hopes on art.

Adorno saw that art could express the experience of pain, escaping from rationality.Therefore, in order to survive in a dark reality, a work of art must be identified with a dark one.

Philosopher Kim Dong-gyu says that images were created to counter the atomization of death, which is the source of human suffering.

Agreeing with the philosophy of Adorno and Kim Dong-gyu, the artist portrays the alienation, depression, and anxiety experienced by modern people in a pictorial way.

For Kwan Oh Jun, the corona pandemic provided an opportunity to confront existential solitude of human beings.

Roland Barthes coined ‘punctum’ as the concept of ‘things of chance that attack the viewer as if stabbing them’ when viewing photographic images.

This contrasts with the ‘studium’, which is the message of photography perceived by the subjective eye of the viewer regardless of cultural tradition. In contrast, the ‘studium’ is the totality of the message of photography understood under the cultural promise.

The artist selects photos that give him the experience of ‘punctum’ among the photos he took by himself and uses them in his work.

Kwan Oh Jun works in a way that reveals the alienation, depression, and anxiety of modern people by using pictorial composition and colors based on selected photographs.