Dyeing

The gap is the boundary between the two worlds, but also where the distinction between the two worlds becomes blurred. There, you can meet both worlds at the same time. In a sense, our daily lives in the contemporary world are like living in the boundary. Interactivity makes what is blurred more perceptible. The biggest characteristic when talking about boundaries is that all languages are paradoxical. In the dyeing project, I dyed four shirts in different concentrations of Sumi ink. However, the actual product is the ink marks on the floor created in the process. No, it is a recorded video of the process. No, it is the digital image that captured that moment. No, it is the dyed clothes – or it is the blackened white canvas made for fun through digital processing. The important point of this project is my language that crosses the boundaries of genre, perspective, and visual vocabulary. It seems as if the piece is a physical product, but all information remains in digital form.

Unlike Western Art, Art in the far-East is based on a poetic approach when defining the object. “Sansoo” is a landscape painting using Sumi ink. But the whole mountain can be a tree and each tree becomes a mountain. The far East-based cosmopolitan perspective provokes the idea of ambiguity of the existence of the being. In my work, I appropriated the idea and created a vague line between the format of the work. And since the idea of Taoism, I performed it based on the language of traditional far east culture. Black and white, slowness, quietness, and the spiritual approach towards the idea are the main characteristics of the project.