Lonely hearts

Lonely hearts ● When I have negative experiences such as anxiety, conflict and frustration, it threatens me to cope with them directly and to find how to settle the problems. It gives an inconvenient memory to express such emotion directly. Thus, I strived to embrace the inconvenience by expressing such a situation in a form of a fairy tale which didn't exist in reality.

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Such expression plays a role of refusing or distorting negative conditions in reality and relieving tension unconsciously. I will not argue or recognize that impulse disliking to accept such as aversion and aggressiveness in myself is caused by the outside through heroes in my works. Furthermore, I often refuse that. Sometimes I avoid incompetence or weakness by expressing a situation opposed to my experience in confusion and disguise hatred to plausible love and cruelty to kindness through concealment. Even through a childish idea, I often strive to escape from fear for a sense of responsibility required to reality.

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When I let some familiar moments of my life be filled with imagination, it allows me to experience another level of life. Such experience creates those traces of the emotions approaching in a primitive way as a differentiated and independent area. I hope that such an imaginative area enables us to realize the diversity of a way of looking at our life. ■ JIYOUNG

Vol.20100710a | 지영展 / JIYOUNG / 知英 / mixed media