'This Is Not Enough is a report on emotional wounds that have already accumulated or are accumulating. The 'room' used as a basic background set, is a visual frame in...
"This Is Not Enough is a report on emotional wounds that have already accumulated or are accumulating. The "room" used as a basic background set, is a visual frame in the ‘Stage of Mind’ series, which is a illustration of psychological landscapes. It is a space that symbolizes the mind (mental state). I compared the mind/rooms to a beehive. It’s a structure that consists in a nesting of other structures like a proliferation of cells. I used the beehive image as a metaphor for the various mental states that have accumulated in order to express the many wounds and pain that amassed within me. The beehive was made with cardboard and the cocoons with paper maché. Each of the hexagonal rooms is a metaphor for "a cell" which is why I painted them in skin-like color. In addition, the outsides have a reddish color. The rooms that contain cocoons are stuffed with a white fluffy material, which is like staunching a bloody wound with cotton; they represent a borderline state where I could cry at any minute. In the cells where the larvas have already emerged, I wanted to express the remnants of old wounds and slow recovery. My intention was to reflect on the wounds, small or big, that we all have or which are accumulated little by little and finally arrive at a heart-rending pain, a clot of pain, rather than a wound from a sudden, immediate big shock. Furthermore, I also wanted to embrace those wounds. Ultimately, what I wanted through this piece was to show the relationship between the newly produced rooms, the swelling cocoons, and the cocoons that have already burst as the increase of wounds. Their remnants and alleviation, and simultaneously their continual rotation through new rooms/mental state."
_JeeYoung LEE
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"'This Is Not Enough' est une sorte de transcription des blessures émotionnelles passées et en cours vécues par l’artiste qu’elle définit ainsi: Tout au long de la série Stage of Mind, l’espace de mon studio se transforme en une synthèse visuelle de mes univers psychologiques. J’ai ici comparé mon esprit/studio à une sorte de ruche dans laquelle chacun des rayons hexagonaux serait comparable aux cellules de mon cerveau ainsi qu’aux diverses émotions et douleurs qui m’ont affecté.Les rayons ont été construits en carton alors que les cocons sont en papier mâché. Étant une métaphore de « cellules », je les ai peint de couleur chair. Ceux emplis de coton et prêts à éclore évoquent cet instant paroxystique où une émotion devenue trop intense prend le dessus et peut faire couler mes larmes à tout moment. Ceux étant vides sont des stigmates de vieilles blessures et dont la guérison s’avère très lente. Mon intention première était de donner une illustration de ces douleurs grandes ou petites qui, à l’inverse de celles qui créent un choc soudain, s'accumulent tous au fond de nous pour au final, s'agglomérer en un lourd caillot de chagrin. Par ailleurs, je souhaitais aussi accepter ces blessures et illustrer la relation entre ces rayons nouvellement produits, les cocons en formation, et ceux prêts à exploser afin de souligner la concentration globale de ces états émotionnels à la fois latents et en perpétuelle rotation." _JeeYoung LEE
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