Artist Statement
 

One way the human being is different from other creatures is our ability to conceive and perceive what we observe.  Moreover, everyone tends to interpret and imagine objects on the basis of each one’s environment, background and experience, making the ability to understand and discern limitless.

As a graphic designer, I often stand and watch strictly and rationally to allow myself to visually communicate and understand the audience’s emotion.  I have taken on a new direction in creating artwork using objects and contents that we routinely encounter in our daily lives.  We see everyday objects in a certain way due to our exposure; I would like to challenge my spectators to see mundane things in a different light.  People have different ways of communicating their thoughts, ideas and philosophy—music, literature—I would like to use visual elements that will dare my audience to understand and perceive the metaphors of my work, which strongly involve the time and space that have the inseparable relation in my creative environment. 

I have always been an advocate of music.  However, unless it is recorded, I was disappointed that it is momentary art—that I was never able to tangibly grasp it.  The project that I would like to potentially work on during my graduate study is to build a system that would make the intangible, tangible; a collaboration of music and visual narrative.   I would like to combine the realistic visual iconicity and emotional sounds to broaden the communication process—to take what we know as only possible to extend the limit of that understanding.  I will carry myself into the viewer’s position to search for different perspectives with questions like, “How much do you love the creative process?” and “How significant is the value of that creative process?”  I would like to break the routine ways of perception and see the commonplace in different ways.

I strongly believe that the creative process greatly relies on the artist’s considerable experience of the sense of existence.  I regularly collect and observe objects I see in daily life, to alter those symbols and shapes from memorized practicality to a different way of contextualization.  My artistic experiment will not only be an education related project, but also a public design project in order to contribute to the community my artisanship.

I also intend to draw from my religious and spiritual experiences as key sources for my project.  I believe my acknowledgment of my spiritual and religious conscientiousness will heighten my perception and inner senses.

As I explained above, my artifacts have significant influence from space, time and objects from my daily life, which I desire to formulate into a new and different form of communication, consequently offering to others and myself reformation.  I would love to take this educational opportunity to boost up and enhance my hidden senses as potential art figures.  I long to constantly observe the various aspects of my life, including daily routine as my treasure house from which to draw my inspiration.