On “Time has escaped” “A wolf is writing up a poem, A girl finally forgets her name. The sun blazes on a white wall, Time has escaped.” Won lee Feb, 2009
Statements
Caesura
Caesura In order to Corporealize The forever ungraspable time of presence, The abysmal ‘Caesura’ in the continuity of time, Between past and future, Already arrived and yet to come, Where, however, the unformed is caught in a form, And the form may give back Incorporeal intensities of difference internal sense of time itself. In Mexico, […]
I would like to see
I would like to see the world in its naked vividness, ungrounded, immanent, outside of any system of signs – language, culture, history, politics etc. Within the matrix of this system of representation of power, we are constricted to think and feel in their tyrannies. As long as artists are engaged in “strategies” that are […]
Everything is alive
“Everything is alive” To me, everything in the world is alive whether it be animate or inanimate, breathing and whispering with its own voices and pulses. A stone piece is alive as much as a live tree or as much as a live human being. A pen is alive, a piece of paper is alive, […]
Difference and Repetition
“On Difference and Repetition Series” In Guadalajara, Mexico, 2 in the afternoon, Garden in heat, The model walks, A breeze wakes the moment, The sun pours its intense materiality. The time stops, The moment materializes, Distributing, A before, a during and an after. The clay, the hands, the form that are forming, Become. Repetition begins, […]
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Johnson State College by Won Lee To me, a sculpture is an event. Making a sculpture is a chain of events. Every stage of completing a piece is an encounter, preliguistic, ungrounded, non-representational, immanent encounter. In the clay mold process, there is an encounter with a model, her little chatters, slight body […]