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peony blossoms 2007
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from the Series <poison/toxication>

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  Again comes the points of seduction, fascinating but lethal camouflaging pattern and colour appearance of the living and the enticing patterns woven. The generality of beauty that flowers hold employs as a host hiding the toxic colours and patterns, or reversed weakness, splendid but insane organisms and spread the toxic colours to live upon parasites anywhere at all times. Luring death with the hallucinating image and being the toxic and beautiful image itself.
   When one is toxic, it means that it manages to seduce us so bad we cannot escape from its palm. If it did not possess such charming toxicity, who would throw themselves into the trap so impatiently?
   For me, flowers represent the image of death and illusion testing the might of aesthetic toxicity. For me as well, photography is a means enabling me to preserve such reality into hallucinating simulacre of death.

  
Ambivalence between the poison and cure, that of images of flowers
or toxins held within living organisms, paradoxically lure our eyes. Is it due to the fact that the toxins represent or being parasitic upon beauty? or is it because the beauty camouflages or even conceals itself within the image of toxication?
   If the representation of image can impress people. where does the strong emotion of representation originate from?All the impermanent phases of the living-that is, the transience and paradoxically, the world of death-the image of representation comes as an impression or compensation of spiritualism in the battle.
   Between life and death, image takes the role of being the memory of representation and image of a preservation. Not settling in either existence nor absence, imago already shows itself through simulacre from the beginning of the funeral.
  
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peony blossoms, c-print,110x 76cm,2006-7
simultaneously- hence the image is itself a consecration to the impossibility and is idolized and praised as being a possible resemblance (mimicry) . Those reveal the symptoms of possibility and impossibility concurrently.
  Abruptly I realize the absence of reality which was never there-the photos of flowers can never be flower-like as a real flower, and it never was, and it does not even matter. Among the senses of formaldehyde, I am gazing into the taxidermed reality. Stuffed flowers, stuffed landscape, and the beauty of it.
  Images act right upon the senses when delusion pulls the nerves through the gap of judgement, when liquidified illusion is injected into the skin like drugs causing instant disturbance in syringe. Now, images confront the enchanting death, not insinuating the hope for existence.                                                                                                     2007, myung -seop hong

peony blossoms, c-print,110x 76cm,2006-7   [click to enlarge]

 

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peony blossoms, c-print,140x 110cm,2006-7   [click to enlarge]
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