Everyone has a time they realize they are no longer the most unique person who they thought they were. I must have thought I was special, contrary to who I really am, because of my future that was going to be bright and expectations projected onto me by others.
When I realize the truth that I was not, I fortunately tried to unload rather than getting hurt prying on it. The truth that I am a small part of this world and entirely replaceable. If you think about it, however, that`s a fundamental problem to us all.
The heaviness of life is equal to all. Equal, but too heavy for an individual person to bear in spite of a myriad of reasons - financial, health, family, or otherwise. Like the force of gravity that nobody can escape. It sadly dawns upon me that I decay physically and emotionally for dustly little problems for dustily little myself in this dustily small Earth in this vast universe. It feels like a fateful thesis that this life is arduous as a poet described - "3 quarters of what effloresced me is the wind gusts" Perhaps, we are going through the gravity of life God has given fairly to everyone.
I want people to feel that they are leaving for somewhere when they see my artwork. Leaving is an innate desire to experience new views or scenary to for get something. The experience to be free from the weight of life when one stumbles upon the overwhelming nature that`s bigger than oneself. I want to express it in my artwork. Furthermore, I wish we could think together about our lives and communicate to elicit positive emotions through this exhibition.
Through the Gravity series, I sought to expand my worldview of artwork while working with the imagery of cosmos. I conveyed the heaviness of life using gravity as a metaphor - onerous as it may be, but equal to all.