The Swan on the Lake

Oil on Canvas

22 x 27.5 cm

I don’t know exactly when it started, but June has become my favorite month of the year — the month I wait for the most. The sky and air feel blue and refreshing.

Last June, I met a friend who lives in Copenhagen. We had coffee together and walked along the river, watching the swans gliding on the shimmering water.

It was such a natural, ordinary scene, yet it felt almost unreal in its beauty and peace — so beautiful that no matter how I tried to capture it in a painting, it always felt somehow incomplete.

- Jungmin Son / 05.2024