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© 2015 Jin-kang Park
Loop
2012

interactive installation, mixed media (yarn, metal bars, concrete, and soil), 3ftX3ftX6ft

Abandoned urban spaces, where the constant development seems to have failed temporarily, interest me. Construction and nature coexist, creating a beauty easy to ignore. I want to embrace such ruins with materials of character opposite to the concrete and steel left on site. In this project 'Loop', I chose yarn, implying warm feelings, continuation and longevity. I built symbolic ruins with metal bars coming out of a patch of earth. I walked around them, tying them together with the yarn, in a repetitive process that took time and patience and was pivotal to the project. I invited members of the audience to participate in the process as well, by wrapping the metal bars in colorful yarn. I want to suggest this repeating, Sisyphean action as city life.

Open Studio at Nars Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, 2012