Parked

Born into the Korean culture, raised in a western educational system, and living in various places in Asia, between an emotional artist and an objective businessman; where finding balance between two extremes was a major component of my life. I was a jock, and a captain of a sports team; I was an artist who loved to quietly paint and take part in cultural events. I went to school for business returning again to study art. I constantly felt I had to choose between these subjects. It took me awhile to realize that all these, juxta positions, were of a single value. I didn’t have to choose or balance between anything because I had already combined them into a single value that made me who I am. My extreme extroverted and introverted persona, that seems so different to others are unique characteristics that makeup who I am.

My animated films visually represent these coexisting extremes. Animation is created with images that are still and when joined and layered, they create the illusion of extreme motion and energy. This medium gives me the ability to amplify emotional experiences from a variety of perspectives resulting from my ‘double-sided’ life. I made a film that deals with the tense experience of an anxiety attack during a mundane event; getting to your car for a drive. Anxiety attacks strike with very short notices and it takes you into a hole which you cannot escape until it stiops. We don't necessarily hallucinate during this phase but it does make us feel like we are being dragged into an unpleasant place within ourselves. you have to go through so much before this phase ends that it exhausts you before you get to do anything for that day. It is a visual representation of emotions taken to its visceral extreme. My films are an autobiographical expressions of my double-sided world.