Statement I am interested in the interaction of the images that are found in our surroundings. Unconsciously or intentionally, images are used to construct public opinions and consequently they penetrate into our lives. With the re-assemblage of images from our present and past, and of the images personally taken and the historical images you find in books, I like to reconstruct sequences of images to examine the personal meanings in historical events. I hope my work inspires viewers to grasp some ephemeral essences of historical events that easily fade away in our everyday life but still remain with us in the air and in the duration of time. Galaxy currently consists of 4 pieces. They are fictional paper-cutout topographical maps. The maps are created from the photographs of groups of soldiers and people from WWI and WWII. I follow the outlines of human shapes in the photograph to create each layer in the map. Galaxy 1 is based on a photograph of war captives and Galaxy 2 is based on a photograph of people kneeling down to the emperor’s palace during the WWII in Japan. The shapes of human figures are identifiable but embedded and merged into in these fictional landscapes with millions of stars (pins). Streak of is a series of photographs I have been taking from my everyday life. The captured images are very airy and light. They don’t specify the subject matter or the context in which the images are taken, as if you are searching for something in the void.
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