glued together an individual strand of hair from the artist's spouse and children is glued together, collectively lengthening them, before being half-looped around a custom-made, clear acrylic slab with each strand evenly spaced with the subsequent ones to eventually form an approximately A2 paper size (42 x 59cm), black, rectangular plane when seen from a distance en masse

Black (work in progress)

Mechanised Abstraction 071217 (in production)

a mixture of pigments, oil paints, oil-based putty was extruded from a custom made device across the surface of stretched linen

Mechanised Abstraction 071217

details, Scrapped Abstraction

Partially scrapped abstract painting made from paper-mâché

Scrapped Abstraction

details, DVA Bench

English vocabularies and corresponding Korean definitions collected during the

writing of the artist’s thesis engraved in wood

DVA bench

details, Black (work in progress)

Abstract wall wooden sculpture is progressively being encased in shards of wood glue

details, In Transit (work in progress)

In Transit (work in progress)

A toilet bowl and a mop bucket collected during the artist’s employment as a cleaner

jointly vacuum-sealed in a trash bag

Untitled

Cooked rice is scorched in an oven to have a tawny colour, before being encapsulated in a clear resin

Yellow

The actual cleaner’s trolley of the artist during his two-year employment as a cleaner was partially melted in a commercial oven

Melted Cleaner’s Trolley

A mould of a full-sized bowling ball with twenty cast fingers of the artist's acquaintances planted within was made to produce a amber-coloured cast resin bowling ball with negative impressions of the fingers 

Sawdust and Plank

Large batch of liquid polyester resin is poured into a rectangular mould, causing it to deform and crack while being cured. Frontal face is sanded and polished, accentuating imperfections within and of remaining sides

Endeavours and Shortcomings

Fingernails and toenails of the artist, artist's spouse, and children are collected over year, oven dried, ground up into a powdered form, before being encapsulated in polyester resin

Abjectly, Ghostly

Details, Untitled, work in progress

Chewing gums are removed from public areas using a scraper, before being individually encased in clear resin. 

Untitled, work in progress

A mould of a full-size bowling ball was produced with negative impressions of twenty fingers of the artist's acquaintances planted within. The resultant sculptural form of a cast resin was encapsulated in a dyed resin to depict ghostly images of fingers pointed towards the centre to signify the act of finger pointing - one of many inevitable human traits and tendencies. 

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