ARTIST STATEMENT

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A person split right down in the middle. The right half controls the left-brain, while the left half controls the right. Controlled by different brains, the right and left are completely different persons. By the means of photography, I bring out the representational world of the two people that lay hidden inside a single person. These two people look very much alike but each have their own distinct emotions and will. An interest in people was the driving force that gave birth to this piece. Spirit and body, brain and soul, consciousness and unconsciousness - these are the things that I want to articulate.

The process of creating this work deepened my awareness of photography as an act of being permitted to photograph rather than as an act of me creating a photograph. A photograph is always of something: without a subject there is no photograph. Perhaps a photograph is ultimately not a form of my personal expression. I think photography means a desire that enables self to transcend own space and enter the subject or allow the subject to enter self. Currently, I am a university senior studying photography, and I give thanks for my family, friends, and teachers as I devote myself to my work and projects.

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