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Suim Choi |
March 1-26, 2005 |
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Suim Choi |
March 1-26, 2005 |
| Flowers keep a double-sided beauty: a beauty of birth and a beauty of death. Last year, I experienced two contrast emotions. I was in a great despair due to my father's death, but also had extreme happiness from marriage and pregnancy. I didn't expect that I would lose my father, one of the most precious things on earth to me. After the loss, however, I have earned my baby, one of the most important things in my life. Flowers radiate beautiful and lively gestures when they bloom. They also present another layer of beauty when following the pre-destined path of death. In this sense, the completely dead flowers might leave stronger remaining impact. Whether they are blooming or withered or whether they stand at the spot or are gone, flowers are gorgeous at each stage of their life. My father resembles flowers very much in this regard. I am becoming more like my father over time. This work is applied with Salt Prints, one of the most classical printing techniques, and the state-of-the-art digital negative. In creating the work, the shortcomings and many steps of works required to make enlarged negatives could be removed thanks to the application of digital methods, and the complete negative produced as a result was combined with the eternity and beautiful tone of non-silver print. A variety of mysterious violet colors created by Salt Prints show breath-taking beauty, since it has things in common with my father's smell and the fragrance of flowers which preserve a double-edged beauty called life and death. |
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SOHO20 Artists Inc.