Today, the world is making rapid progress into an information society already passing the industrialized society. To people who live in today's knowledge and service oriented society, the technology of telecommunication is regarded highly important. H...
Today, the world is making rapid progress into an information society already passing the industrialized society. To people who live in today's knowledge and service oriented society, the technology of telecommunication is regarded highly important. However, our society is thrown into a mental panic although we have made a lot of progress towards a better life. Conveniences and benefits that material civilization had brought to us became a poison on the contrary. The advancement of science and media made direct and indirect influences on everywhere in human life with information flood. As enormous amount of information pours out of the non-stop TV commercials and active internet world, people can not build individual characteristics and thus get confused. In regard to information reception, a lot of negative problems were exposed such as information gap, privacy intrusion, alienation, loneliness and isolation, and ethical problems, etc. in the aspects of human value and social balance.
In such metal puzzlement, people live a life in reality concealing it on the surface. It is because they will become a social failure by expressing the inner anxiety frankly. They want to look like a main hero in a drama who is rich and powerful in the gaze of others. It is natural to be conscious of the gaze of others as we live every moment of life, being exposed to it. It may be a natural consequence in some ways that lookism and materialism are wide spreading in this other-oriented society.
Everybody has anxiety. He is just hiding it. The person who reveals his anxiety outside will look passive and inferior. The person who hides it away will look confident and active. Depending on how much he reveals inside feelings, he will be judged either "strong" or "weak." People today have impersonal and even cold-hearted attitude and dress up the outside with material beauty, of which the action is a mere protective mechanism to hide inner anxiety. Like the method of camouflage and disguise which weak animals and plants employ to hide away or to confuse the predators, people today embellish themselves with splendid clothing and accessories in order to hide their flaws, inferiority complex and weakness. People make themselves up exaggeratedly to conceal anxiety and cover up the inside feelings completely.
I portrayed people today in my work, who are covered up with gorgeous clothing and accessories but have anxious psychology underneath their expressions and gestures. The camouflage-like vibrant patterns and colors they use to make up their appearance are not general patterns and colors of circles. They are created with a variety of overlapping circles which indicate insecure human psychology. In addition, I showed the irony of duality by contrasting the splendid colorful clothing and accessories and human figures in a limited palette of colors.
In this thesis, I intended to lead the viewers to identify the psychological anxiety that contemporary citizens experience and also to think over the issues of materialistic desire and inner psychology. By taking the subject matter to deal with contemporary issues, I would like my work to bean art of this time and would like to continue it in firm belief.