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SATA Pulsar Soul tree NS 95389 photography, LED mixed
media 60x60cm 2017

Photography in a modern art does not stay, simply records very good.
what is seen, but expresses the artist's ideas and imagina- What is the story of your first solo exhibition <History>?
tion using various media. By looking at your works so far, As you can see from the title, it is mainly the story of my family in
why is the digital composition your mainstream of work? my chronicle. You could call it as the episode of depicted emotions
I do not have a specific meaning in doing the digital photo com- that I felt and thought in my day to day life. Most of my family
posite. Prior to working in the photography, I worked for an inter- members have deceased. It is the work of imaging the moments
net related company. I started to take pictures with the company that I shared and felt in the most powerful way with those who
provided camera and it prompted me the curiosity. Because I had died. I have expressed that imaginary animal figures, I created, not
overwhelming work load at the company, I had to make some im- seen as a human, are sharing the space with me. At this time, I
ages on my own for the ones I could not photograph due to lack of was highly interested in the surrealism. The body or body parts
time. Since I was mainly involved in editing the motion graphics and attached to those of other foreign objects that are associated with
images, I became good at image making. Just like, using the scissors animals were used to create images of emotions at some point in
to cut the image and paste, I used the programs like photoshop time. I felt good at the moment when part of myself was combined
and uploaded the different images on online community in a daily with another part of the objects or the animals that I could not be
basis. I kept on uploading the images since people’s response was together in the past or the present. And when the work was com-

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