If thinking and questioning are evidence of existence, then we are unreal if we can\u2019t question it in our dreams. And the moment we wonder if it\u2019s a dream, we wake up and become real. In everyday life, we rarely question our existence as we do when we are about to wake from a dream. The original intention of this project is to invite everyone to think with me, question together, and resolve the existential crisis that does not exist or is in subconscious together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the beginning I created this tree by editing and distorting it. Through the contemplation of everyday scenes such as the disordered tree, I aim to prompt viewers to raise questions related to reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Drawing inspiration from philosopher Roland Barthes and his elucidation of structuralism as an active mental process, I embrace the idea of the simulacrum\u2014the fusion of intellect with the object. Structuralism involves a dual operation of dissection, breaking down a whole to comprehend its meaning, and articulation, establishing rules of association within the fragments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The object of structuralism is not man endowed with meanings, but man fabricating meanings. And in this tree puzzle I created, I wanted people to engage and create orders and meanings on their own. It manifests a new category of the object, which is neither the real nor the rational, but the functional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17109,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-17090","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-integrative-studio-seminar-1","tag-shift"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n