You can view the video of the installation piece, OUT/IN, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWvyIpoaLqY&feature=PlayList&p=D6F0E44336D2427F&index=0

I have been interested in shadows for a long time. They often tell me more of the story, truth, and reality than the actual and facial side of objects or people.

When I was a child, I could see my mother’s sad feeling/mood from her back even though she wore a smile on her face. Likewise, shadows tell me the same type of truth and moreover add some mysterious quality to art work.

I’d like to explore the possibility of the effect of shadows further using the gallery space as a universe representing the four seasons. I’d like to see the interaction of real shadows and false ones intermingle so the viewers feel the painted shadows become real. At the same time, I’d like viewers to enjoy the movement of shadows as they criss-cross so that they feel the rhythm of life and a connection with the art.

The four walls are displayed as follows:

As a viewer enters the room, one will see the long and tall shadows cast on the facing wall because the lights are placed low near the floor. Also, thick white yarn suspended from the ceiling gently swings caused by the air movement which casts moving shadows on the wall. This wall represents Winter.

The left wall represents Spring. Greenish strings are suspended from the ceiling and painted shadows are pleasantly placed in the middle of the wall because the light source is coming from the upper part of the opposite wall.

The right wall represents Fall. The shadow size will be same as Spring, maybe a little bit shorter, and from the ceiling are leaves, and suspended with very fine fish line.

The back wall, opposite Winter, is Summer. The light is placed on the ceiling, beaming down toward the wall so that the shadows of viewers will be the shortest among four walls as well as the painted ones. Thin blue strings coming down from the ceiling create the feeling that viewers are walking through summer rain.

All these strings will move gently along with people’s movement and cast moving shadows on the walls. Upon entering the room and moving around there for a while, I’d like the viewers to feel connected with the painted shadows as they overlap their shadows onto the painted ones and by reacting to the shape of the shadows. At the same time, I want them to feel the rhythm of the space/universe or the passing of time by seeing their shadows move while shadows of strings gently move and appeared to be falling from the sky in the four corners of the entire room. I believe that Life is experienced and felt when art and soul are connected.

In this project, I want to see visual effect as well as the conceptual one juxtaposing the older pieces made in 1985-87 and newer ones made in 1999-20002.

When I made these works with hands in 1985, I was interested in using hands' expressiveness. Putting dark color was to give the work the weight since these arms and hands are made of papier-mache, and also, I was looking for the similar sense from Rodin's work. After 15 years or so, when I started using hands again, I wasn't looking for heaviness of the surface, rather the subject matter itself; Love. And, the light color was more fitting then.

I’d like to explore the possibility of something unexpected to come out from these pieces of juxtaposition. Do we feel something different from looking at each piece and two pieces side by side?