my my metro

I swiped my metro card and it was expired. Then I realized that it has been 2 weeks since I came here. Someone said it has been warmer than usual winter for NY but it is really cold to me. I am used to the whether of Savannah and miss it. Other than Wall Mart Super centers, Southern army zombies, and Chatham tower, I realize that there are not so many scary things in Savannah and it is good place for living.
NYC makes me think a lot. I hope this thinking will effect positively to my work…

People in train look soooooooo tired and depressed. There are so many Asians in China town. Dimsam was good.

Getting Ready

I went my studio and re-arranged the space. Thank you Charles for leaving me a message with many good advises! I will go check the galleries that you suggested me! My 2 of 3 packages have come to the studio but one of them; I don’t know where it is. But it is not too important to start working… I was looking for a place that has free Internet. Even Starbucks did not have free Internet. Later, my friend told me that I could get the free access at Mac store. It was raining today but it is not too cold in NY compare to the past few weeks ago in Savannah. I hope it won’t get too cold. I am living in Brooklyn for now and the place is really close to Atlantic-Pacific station. And it is not hard to go anywhere as long as I have an address. NY had been good to me until this point…. I got involved a fighting with a drunken guy... Fortunately, people around me stopped us and I did not get injure and police did not come in a good way. The guy teased me, got mad at me and lost his eye glasses all by himself... I hope something fun happenings will happen to me later...

recent artist statement

I find our lives to be full of dramas. I believe these dramas come from the nonsense in our lives. We cannot comprehend nonsense with our customary thoughts. I am interested in lines that divide things that make sense from things that do not.

In pocket size sketchbooks, I draw and reinterpret images that come into my mind, happenings, dreams, and emotions at the time. The simplicity of materials and techniques allow me to have flexible and spontaneous ways to produce images. The drawings do not directly explain the meanings, reasons, and realities of our lives, but I feel an internal necessity to communicate with others through images, which I cannot explain in words. I consider communication through languages and words to be external communication. I consider what I am trying to do with the drawings to be internal communication. Through the drawings, I try to find a fundamental story or subconscious sequence in the images and re-evaluate values and cognition that I have experienced in my life. Then, I search for ways to develop the drawings through other media such as painting, installation, and sculpture.

My goal is having my language through the activity to welcome the nonsense with awe. And I believe this action helps me overcome stereotypes and prejudices against unknowable in our lives.

about the title

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPOWynYoNGU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGVtApaPpWk

Miami Art Basel 07 and a happy new year 08!

Miami was scary. Lots of galleries and lots of fake boobs from all over the world. I don't really know what to do with this world...