Personal Statement
My theme came about from my love for
animals. I began with simple and cliché ideas and developed those ideas into
works which possess meaning and the message that I wish to articulate. To give
meaning to my ideas I delved into my personal history and culture, reconnecting
with an awful experience with my grandparents eating pet dog that I raised. In
Korean culture, it is traditional to invigorate the body by consuming braised
meats, usually chicken. My grandfather favored eating dog meat and cooked up
the dog that we raised. It has always stayed with me. I have then focused on
the eating of meat and the treatment of meat animals, often farmed for a brutal
death. Different cultures also do not frown upon eating live meat off fish.
There is no consideration for pain and suffering. Animals are not just meat
carcasses, and after looking into vegetarianism I went back to Genesis where I
read that the first people only ate only fruit and nuts. I’ve worked through
various media; Chiaroscuro oils, luminous water color on paper, lenticular lens
plastic and photo-shopped posters. Water-color was used to express the purity
of fruits which are gifts from God. And the lenticular lens can be viewed from two
perspectives, animal or meat.
Charlotte Caron has been an influence. She
has worked over photographs with thick acrylic paint. By creating a harmony
through two mediums, it allows her to compare two similar but different worlds
thus creating duality. Her series of masked humans conveys the idea of animals
and humans having similar personalities. Louis Wain painted cats with human
personalities as friends. I personally wanted to create images that can easily communicate
my intentions about the way many people see animals. That is as meat to be
consumed, not the mostly intelligent sentient beings they are.
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