2004.3.25 ~ 4.4

M.S. 석사학위 청구전, Gallery of Design, 

UW-Madison School of Human Ecology,

WI, U.S.A.

[Artist's Statement]

My art represents the dualism of the female condition; vulnerability and safety and fragility and strength are expressed through pattern, repetition, ritual process, and an invitation to emotional involvement. The female nude and the lotus are my basic subject matter for expressing the human capacity to participate in varied emotional states. 

The representation of the dualism of the female psyche is enables by cloth as a material. Cloth can mediate between the hidden and the revealed, like a veil through which one passes from vulnerability to satisfy, just as the human skin is a boundary between the inner and outer body.

I have two types of work. The first work is a circular installation of images burned into silk organza with incense, which is a traditional process, and done by hand.  I use incense sticks as a unique tool in my works. With this technique, I create repetitive patterns of holes in a ritual process that builds imagery of the female nude and the lotus. 

The other work is computer wallpapers, which are generated mechanically and represents a new technique for creating pattern, ritual, and the lotus.

The dichotomies embodied in the two types of works-protected and unprotected, concealed and revealed, internal and external-are expressions of the dualism that I identify in the female psyche, the purpose of this juxtaposition is to invite the viewer to collapse these apparent dichotomies. 

However, this approach still allows individual viewers to recognize the distinctions embodied by the techniques are intended to express.