The Chicken-Egg Problem - ÔÏÍ®-ù¾Õ°
As the chicken turns to the positive(åÕ), the eggs turn to the negative(ëä),
and now the eggs desire to become chickens, turning to the positive(åÕ).
Red is monkey¡¯s ass, (hence) an apple is red, (hence) delicious
is the apple, (hence)¡¤
The Boundaries between Animals and Plants--
Animals are living organism, and in this sense, they seem to possess,
even beyond countering, the properties of plants that are inherently
opposite to them. They include hair,
fingernail, toenail, teeth, wen, wart, dark spots, freckles, discoloration,
etc., and further the bones- all of them are traits belonging to
plants: Animals grow like plants and it is
inherently impossible to exclude traits of plants. This can be called
¡®paralogy of biology¡¯
¡®Here/There¡¯, Paralogy of Place
Even though my objects are supposed to carry special message to
deliver and working with them is fun, its real message seems to
lie somewhere else. Here and there, everywhere, nowhere, somewhere,
anywhere, etc. Neither this nor that, either this or that, both
this and that, and so on--these are the themes underlying my works.
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Mimicking the
Mimicry: The Politics of Image One of the subjects that
have interested me was the zebra pattern (camouflage pattern-mimicry,
protective color). I¡¯ve seen them as ¡®the politics of life¡¯,
¡®the sociology of image¡¯, or ¡®the ecology of image¡¯ and interaction
between them. Camouflage (êÊíû, Ú»óô); Military uniform- the animal
print; Camouflage: the spot pattern of the military equipment
in the battlefield. My life mimics the life I am anxious about
and dream of. Mimic before the mimic, mimic after the mimic.
There is no such thing as a sheer beauty or a sheer ugliness.
Being beautiful while being ugly or being ugly while being
beautiful, such a society of paralogy. What is beautiful and
what is not coexist in one body. Yet, what is always beautiful
is made possible only through trying to exclude implicitly
what is not beautiful.
2003. myung -seop
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