The population of the whole world is over 60 million. Anyone could guess that within everyone's body, red blood is circulating. Now, I would guess that each person has a particular red color that is uniquely his or hers, and slightly differs from that of all the others'. This is just like each individual has his or her own birthplace, nationality, face, and values that are different from those of others. In other words, there must be 60 million different red colors.
How, I wonder, would these various red colors appear to be, if they were visually recognizable? Would they seem well managed and systematized, systematically displayed, and appear as symbols of something, just like a color chart book? Or would they rather seem chaotic, in order, or rational?
As long as human beings exist, we will endlessly keep hearing about news related to blood, such as one's lineage, ethnicity, or viruses, while those "reds" of 60 million kinds will also continue running through our bodies. These activities are quite simple, and can be conducted without much waste. This fact reminds me of the digital world, which keeps on repeating calculations and re-constructing itself, no matter what happens in the real world. |
Thank you very much for your recognition of my artwork in this competition. I appreciate your high appraisal.
This work was born based on my thought about the existence of as many as 60 million human beings on the Earth-- I thought, if there are so many people living on this Earth, there also must be 60 millions different red colors for blood. No matter what is going on in this real world, the workings of the human body in which blood routinely keeps circulating, following the same route, is just like inside computer-- the digital world. While we human beings externally express a variety of inner feelings, such as happiness, anger, sadness and joy, such a routine work is being matter-of-factly repeated inside. |
