Two Eyes Project - Che-Sang Nail!

DUNUN _ Yellow perfume _ hoe, finger nails _ 24 x 13 x19(cm) _ 2010

Becoming Golden Yellow Perfume

I felt the yellow brightness of girl’s heart and she gave me courage to keep working. Isn’t yellow the symbol of innocence? 
From her golden yellow heart, the girl’s finger nail clippings bloomed from my grandmother’s heirloom. I hope  that < Yellow Perfume> will work as a tool that cultivates the hearts of every one who breathe and live together on this land.

Visual music : Jung Bong Won

The Hoe,My Grandmother’s Heirloom 
 I have never seen the hoe my grand mother used all her life.
Originally the hoe had a wooden handle but got broken beaten by time so my father reforged the handle with  aluminum and gave it to her.
She still weeded with this hoe wearing towel as bandana on her head even three months before she died. 
When I look at this hoe, it reminds me of her emaciated legs that I saw for the last time as she lay in state in her coffin .
 I feel the years of her honest labor planting the seeds of life intact from the tip of the hoe.

Nails  Collected by One Family For Two Years and  One  Month

I had been discouraged because my years of works with finger nails were not catching on even in my private exhibitions.

But NOH SuntagViewer’s family posted a message asking for my address so they could send me the finger nail clippings that their whole family had collected

for two years and one month, and this encouraged me not to give up my work.

The reason they could collect finger nail clippings for so long was because the family’s six year old daughter was really into it.

He wrote, “ We would appreciate it very much if you could make one artwork with our family’s finger nails only, and send us a photo of that work,”

because he wanted to show my work to his daughter. I told him I would do it and I kept that promise even though it took 3 years.

perfume ≤ 향수(Hyang-Soo in Korean): 1. An agreeable cosmetic liquid scent

2. Enjoyment from certain benefit 3. Homesickness or anxiety for one’s home town

4. Enjoying a long life 5. The head of “ Sin-bang-choeng” which was a self-governing body of shamans until the latter part of the Chosun Dynasty.

'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.
<- To the participants, souvenir post stamp and gift of meaningful time will be provided.

factory of something more than fun 

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