Dunun _ Shall grow up in heart _ Bronze, Nails, _ actual size _ 2010

Nails being cut off periodically suddenly make me aware of the time that I have spent so far. A cut-off piece of nail is the marks of shame and pain in life. Suffering and patience from life becomes a flower in my heart to emit a hopeful fragrance of life. 

Episode taken to heart
In December, 2009, I shook hands with a master of furniture at the Korean Masters' Exhibition. At the moment, I startled. I felt the master has hands with some defects. Since childhood, I've noticed my father's hand without a forefinger. And I had no regard for it, but my heart had a great regard for it. And I became to have unexpected pity for him. 

Visual music : Jung Bong Won Appearance : Jeon Ji Myoung Photography : Na. Min kyu

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Father's hand

Dunun(Two Eyes)'s father lost his forefinger by accident while processing iron in his youth and lost his ring finger again about 10 years ago. And he had overcame those difficulties and continued his way over 40 years. As a result, he became a master of metal craft of Korea in 2006.
I was inspired by my father's hand allowing me look into his life in which he overcame his handicap. So, I tried to actually make a mold of his handicapped hand and to form the shape of a perfect hand by reproducing his lost fingers with nails which are the marks of life. I considered that a work being completed in such a process might contain a positive force to life. However, my father declined my suggestion stubbornly. He kept ignoring several requests. I thought he could show his hand despite of disability like a man, but he had a different thought from me.

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Nails are the marks with shame and pain of life. 
 A nail is a useful living tool that protects the fingertip and informs a health condition. And it gives us inconveniences by keeping growing continuously and becoming dirty while carrying on life. Therefore, it is cut off as much as being grown. A cut-off piece of nail reminds us of the time past and a dirty existence. Let's consider a nail as an entity with more interest. It's admirable that a nail doesn't reveal pain when being cut off. A nail itself doesn't give us pain whether being as one with the body or cut off. That's why Dunun thinks that our lost feeling is inherent in a cut-off nail.
Dunun is being donated with cut-off nails from a crowd. The nails will become media to share feelings and these destined to be thrown away will have new vitality.

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An accidental event occurs if implementing what I've thought.
Owing to my father's stubborn opposition, I modified my work by molding my hand and then breaking off the forefinger of the mold. And the little finger was come off by accident when I was removing the outer mold. After some worry, I reached the thought that it'd be better if shaping the lost little finger with nails. Further, a little finger means the symbol of a promise and is the closest blood vessel to the heart among fingers, which provide more meanings. And then, it occurred to me what if a flower of nails comes out in the finger. I attached nails one by one like a petal at the fingertip of the shape.

Speculation on a finished product discloses the subconscious.
After completing <Shall grow up in heart>, I thought over sympathy again. Does sympathy possibly result from a normal man's superiority to the handicapped? Is it allowed for me to say that I'm 'superior' to the master, based on what is seen? Absolutely not.
And I realized that I startled at the moment due to my arrogance to mold my father's actual hand. I've never experienced any prejudice to pain from a finger being cut off and the handicapped or tried to have a talk over such a life for understanding. It was natural that my father did not accept my asking.

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Father's lost finger became a flower blooming in his heart.
Dunun was encouraged by a word of Ms. Yoon, YoungSim who appreciated a photo of Mr. Na, MinKyu, which was taken in front of the reconstruction site of SoongRyeMoon to produce <Shall grow up in heart> as digital content. 

“Seems your father's forefinger comes into a flower at Dunun's fingertip.”  

Possibly, we may live on while forgetting what we have to consider more valuable as human beings in the tough world. I think we have to think over the truth that the eyes of heart tell us rather than clinging to what we simply see. When the eyes of heart open, we may smell the fragrance of life being emitted from the truth. This fragrance would lead us to a richer lifer.

I wish that from this work, the people suffering with mental and physical pains while living in the present time have the positive force that a flower seed inside heart burst into bloom some time. If I would shake hands with the master with a finger lost, I feel I could smell fragrance from his life.
I'd like to express my gratitude to the people who donated their marks of life to create <Shall grow up in heart>.   

• 2010 korea Master Artisans' Expo • September 15th～18th  • D Hall, 3rd Floor, COEX

Various meanings of heart(마음): Inherent personality or character. Reaction or attitude that feels or have an emotion, will or thought, etc. toward other man or thing. Interest in a thing. Base of the mind of mentality to decide whether a thing is right or wrong and/or good or bad. Feeling of love or affection toward others or the opposite sex. Force to think of a thing. Jaegal(dialect of Jeju island)

'Two Eyes Project' is aimed to visualize and brood what is forgotten in life or covered to adapt to current society. Throughout this, this project is intended to enjoy the pleasure of thinking, imagine and realize the world where the most honest thing is the most beautiful thing.
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