Water, Wind, and Wave
Water, Wind, and Wave
In the summer of 2019, I had an opportunity to collaborate with Yiseol Kim, a novelist who wrote the novel Bad Blood
I am very interested in a place because it can tell a story. A site is associated with the lives of individuals. The works take inspiration from a riverside area that I accidentally found while searching for my locational source. The book never directly refers to a specific place; it describes a riverside area where ordinary, perhaps, more unfortunate than ordinary people lead their lives.
I intend to construct a new reality that is utterly different from how the novel describes. As if overcoming one's destiny, I want to deconstruct pre-existing phenomena to build a new world. I intend to create a new reality in which forms become fluid, shifting, and ever-changing like water, which does not have a fixed structure. Through my imagination, I attempt to evoke the desire for change, envisioning new possibilities.
To reflect my intention, I improvised the entire process of making these screenprints. Without a predetermined end, I repeatedly disassembled and reassembled fragments of the images documented from the location. As I was developing the construction and deconstruction process, employing both analog and digital artmaking techniques, new forms emerged unexpectedly. I want my work to be the reservoir containing the water of possibilities, manifesting a new dynamic ever-changing reality.