Artist statement

photo by Hearan Bae

I am not a profetional. I am not an artist.

I am an observer as a maker who likes watching people and creatures, and working with video. My favorite work is communications with people who show human relationships such as, conflict, struggle, even love. My works have involved in their lives and tried to let them speak up. It is story of what they want and what they feel.

When I was in school, my first trial called "Dinner", showed modern family life critically. It combined the general family conversation from the dinner table into opposit images which criticized negative family situations. My second work which is a small documentary, "Strangers voices," based on illegal foreigner labors' troubles like cultural issues and human rights. I was excited while I was making these works. I felt as if I took off my ordinary character and found remarkable personality. In a word, I became a stranger.

Since I have lived in New York, there are various and shocking issues around me. New York is perfectly composed as a good source of events and represented in unusual sorts. As an boserver, I am still enjoying and looking for these interesting enviromnets. Moreover recently I am trying to find my next trial which is setting up the boundary between realities and unrealities. The background will be in New York and New York people will be my targets.

Watch out! Here is a stranger.