Specimens of the spilled over
2024
Medium: Photo Painting
Photographic Paper, Nylon Resin, Pigment
H700mm W1300mm D70mm
This series is a body of work to raise question about validity for artists and critics to use concepts like minority, diversity, marginality, and intersectionality.
Besides my work as an artist, I also handle numerous projects as a designer, some of which involve serving as a creative advisor for Tokyo 2020 or providing design learning programs for inmates, requiring utmost consideration for diversity and marginalized communities. Furthermore, in contemporary times, designs and expressions lacking consideration for diversity and marginalized communities are not tolerated. I fully understand the importance of such considerations.
However, I feel that there are many instances where the apparent “diversity” and superficial consideration for “marginal”/ “minority” disrupt the deeper understanding and thoughtful engagement with these issues. It seems like we are creating typologies of concepts such as marginal, minorities, and/or diversity, much like crafting insect specimens. By contriving new words that point to previously overlooked aspects and exhibiting specimens that correspond to these words, we may inadvertently be missing the tactile sensations, smells, tastes, or even the sounds emitted by the things hidden within the boundaries of words and/or concepts.
Within this series, I employ the extraction of latent shapes nestled within soundscapes through the utilization of spectrograms. These concealed patterns are then subject to a substantial amplification process, resulting in their enlargement. Ultimately, these augmented forms are rendered tangibly by means of 3D printing technology. These printed shapes are then coated with fluorescent paint and fixed onto the background image using insect specimen pins. The extracted shapes symbolize the ambiguity that lie at the boundary between words, difficult to express in language. Applying fluorescent paint to them serves as a metaphor for reducing the infinite nuances of the original subject into vibrant unicolor. Fixing them with insect pins serves as a metaphor for the violent act of specimen-like representation of things hidden in the boundary.
A BOUQUET OF DIVERSITY
sculpture
The Voice within the Voice “People shouting from their windows during the lockdown in Shanghai / From Patrick Madrid’s post on X”
digital print
The Voice within the Voice “Sandra Oh speaks at anti-Asian hate rally in Oakland / The Pitt News”
digital print
Stories Not Used “OLD TESTAMENT” BOOK OF GENESIS
digital print
8 million traces
digital print
Specimens of the spilled over
photo painting
Stories Not Used “בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ / WYC1382”
digital
8 million traces
commission work
Stories not used “Book of Genesis”
digital
Stories not used “The Sonnets 18”
digital
The Womb of the City
commission work
Dialogue with the figurative #04
painting sculpture
Dialogue with the figurative #03
painting sculpture
Dialogue with the figurative #02
painting sculpture
Dialogue with the figurative #01
painting sculpture
HELVETICA
video
Fossils from the future #08 “Louis vuitton”
sculpture
Fossils from the future #07 “HERMES”
sculpture
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