Eternal Clock

Eternal Clock 1

Eternal Clock 2

Eternal Clock 3

Installation

Eternal Clock

 Wood, Concrete, Plexiglass, and Three Videos 

52”x 35”x 52” (W x H x D)

April 2013 

In this piece, I am dealing with an idea of eternal time and continuity of the world. We do not actually realize that we are living in a time that leads us to death. In other words, our physical bodies are going to disappear eventually yet the world will continue and time will go on forever. The triangle symbolizes eternity and I am using it to represent eternal time. I made three videos of clocks that imply eternal time. I built a giant pyramid made out of concrete. The concrete symbolizes physical matter. I projected two videos onto two different sides of the pyramid, and the scale of the video is smaller compared to the sculpture. Also, the other video was projecting on the corner of the wall.

What if a clock goes backwards? One of the videos on the sculpture is asking this question by depicting a clock going backwards while a person’s physical body disappears into eternal time. For both videos on the pyramid, I am using a projected shadow to create an abstract drawing of a clock. Both of the videos create a mystical mood. In the last video on the wall, there are people walking around the outline of a triangle. The performance becomes a sort of a drawing of people in eternal time. The frame of the video and how it is transformed by projecting into the corner create the sculptural form.

By projecting clocks onto the pyramid, I am setting eternal time in motion. The viewers are walking outside eternal time in the time of the world. This provokes the understanding that our physical bodies are living in an eternal time in the physical world. 

Black Hole

Part of Piece, "Black hole"

Bach Chaconne

Black hole

Wood, Iron paint, Resin, Fabric, and Two Videos

72"x65"x75" (WxHxD)

January 2013

I am interested in architectural forms and I get inspiration from constructions, buildings in New York City. For this piece, I wanted to create a feeling that viewers are walking into the space and I wanted to build an intangible ground from my imagination and make it visible to viewers. I made a crystal shape, architectural in size, of repeated frames and placed them in a space. The way I installed the frames, looked like a giant black hole. It created an illusion of being in a crystal as you walked into the piece.

Inside the large negative shape of crystal, there is a smaller crystal pyramid object on which one video is projected. The video shows a performer playing a violin. She is playing classical music, “Bach Chaconne”. The music suggests to me everything goes back to dust. There were two videos projected inside of the structure. The second video is projecting at eye level and is of shadows moving. In the video, the shadows are moving into and onto the ground. The movement of the shadows is visually poetic. 

The whole body of work creates the feeling of being absorbed into its content. The work suggests that as viewers are physical beings, our physical bodies will go into the ground. 

Crystal

Crystal 1

Concrete, Glass, Fabric, and Aqua-resin

11"x14"x9" (WxHxD)

February 2013

Crystal 2

Concrete, Bronze

13"x11"x9" (WxHxD)

February 2013

Writing on the ground

Part of Piece, "Meditation"






Installation

 35"x26"x26"

Concrete, Styrofoam, Steel

 For the scale, it depends on how far projector is from the ground.

Concrete on paper

Installation

My own way of meditation is the structure of my works. One work is an installation of two videos. First, I videotape myself writing “guilty thoughts” with my finger on pieces of concrete on the floor, and then I installed the video by projecting it onto a sculpture. The performance becomes a sort of ritual action. For the sculpture, I hung the pieces of concrete from the ceiling using a giant nail. By putting the concrete tables of sins onto the nail, it creates the meaning that my sins have been transferred and are already forgiven. Writing sins onto the lowly concrete represents guilt and guilt is something that we carry with us in our lives.

Next to the sculptural-video piece, I had another video installation piece being projected on the floor. I placed twenty-­one small squares of concrete on the floor, creating one big square. The video that is projected on the squares shows fingers creating red marks. The fingers move as if they are typing on a computer keyboard. After the typing movement, the fingers marks start making lines. The movement of the fingers on the non-­existent keyboard is typing the text of the Ten Commandments. In this piece, I am creating my own focus, my own invisible command, and my own meditation. The movements and finger typing sounds create a ritualized atmosphere. By installing these pieces together, I am creating a world that allows me to find meaning for my life.  

Love Quest

Introduction of "Love Quest"

In one of my early works, Love Quest, I am spreading my world to the real world. It is about collecting all the wishes of people who desire to be in love forever or who want to find someone to be forever in love with. There are spheres, which represent "Wishes". Every sphere symbolizes different feelings of love. People are answering the question, "Do you wish to be forever in love?", grab a wish ball and answer, "Yes" or whatever they want to say. For the upper parts of the sculpture says “Love” in Korean letters, “Sarang”. The performance becomes a sort of my own way of finding meaning in life.

                         

Styrofoam, Aqua-resin, Fiber glass

32"x 54"x 32"( W x H x D )

Upper parts of the sculpture says "Love" in korean words, "사랑(Sarang)".