Timeless Pot Series 1, 2019
Timeless Pot Series 1, 2019, Ceramic Slip, Soil, Cactus, Water, Canvas. Changeable Installation (Canvas Size: 36x217”)
<Timeless Pots series> includes four series. In this series, all of the works evoke ideas about change through the lapse of time. In this work, I address loss through the impermanence of things: ephemeral acts of dissolving clay pots. While I created this artwork, this series of works developed naturally without my certain expectation or plan. The work started with the concept of death and loss based on the experience of my grandfather's death but its constant change, which gives it a future and potential, helped me find the positive possibilities. In this work, the potential exists in every single series for it to become something new. This work is never finished. All of changing steps in <Timeless Pot Series> became the index of the past and clue for the future, providing a record while I released my emotion through this work. Therefore, through this series of work, even if everything runs toward extinction and death, I understand that my mindset defines a cycle of life and eternity.
This installation changed when I poured water into the flowerpot, but it also changed by itself to affect the other clay pots like dominoes. As the water in one flowerpot flows out, the water and residue move toward the other pots, disintegrating the other pots on the canvas. Like human life, the flowerpots affect each other both intentionally and unintentionally, having a lasting impact.
