Expenditure
I think boredom is completely a being of expenditure. In “Heavy Joke,” 2009, there is a pile of rough, but flat brushstrokes in the middle of canvas. Barricades surround the stack but some brush strokes are poked out of the barricades. It seems like incidental products deriving from a manufacturing process. This painting is about the by-product of human actions. People anxiously respond to tragic events. While people are tormented by feelings of insecurity, anxiety already starts to consume and devour indiscriminately abundant events or images causing sex, brutality and sympathy. I think people want the expenditure of emotion to be released from anxiety and boredom. Human beings seem to be tortured by boredom but they cannot live without it.
We accept dreadful horrors through the media. It’s like windows wide open in a thunderstorm. A window as newspaper, a window as television and also a window as the Internet. Especially through the Internet, we can access vast amounts of information and events in the world. There is much more massive and stimulating entertainment than ever. Nevertheless, why do modern people get more and more bored and why are they always in monotone? Isn’t it such an irony: we live in a world which is the opposite of lack. It is an excess; yet, we are bored.
I get on the Internet to release my boredom because there is so much information on events that I could consume. When I access the Internet, I am a hunter and respond to many stimuli. I spend a lot of time with uncontrolled quantities of information. But at the moment I turn off my computer, ironically, I am not satisfied, rather; I am full of nothingness. I began to recognize that I am not a hunter who catches what I want.
2010.