인사동 사람들

Human beings are born, grow, and eventually return to nature. At the beginning of the life, every human being has a primal purity and cleanliness. While living on, some people are trying to preserve their originality, but most humans are obsessed with prosaic avidity. ● Our lives are closely related to and also affected by avidity. It is certainly difficult to give up avidity in life from society. Someone who doesn't possess is anxious to fill the void; someone who possess is greedy for more than he has. ● This terrible avidity always makes us hungry. This hunger always craves the material object, wealth. Each people fights desperately to satisfy own thirst, and rationalizes as legit. The first thing we have to do to escape the yoke of avidity in the rapidly changing industrialization is to admit that we are craving it. ● In my work, the purity given as a pre-born is expressed as water before formation of the ice, it is men' pursuit of avidity, and the process of melting back into the water is men' abandonment for prosaic avidity and return to the pureness of the pre-born. ● When the ice melts, returning to its original form of water is not abandoning itself, but finding itself. Each individual ice (prosaic avidity) melts and merges into a single water (pureness of the pre-born). ● I want to put meanings on the ice, the mass material as the avidity existing human beings and my wish that I want to go back to the pureness and be free from the avidity as the ice melts back to the pureness symbolized by water. ■ Hyeon, Deok Sik