When I was a kid I remember going to playschool. You do pretty much the same thing everyday at playschool, which is probably why you have no definitive memory of it. Everyday we’d paint a picture and everyday I’d try and create something usually involving He Man. The problem was I was four years old and frankly I was shit so all my paintings came out as a brown swirly mess. In my defence the brushes were really fat, which made detail tricky, and the palate was at best limited.
When I showed these pictures to my Mum she’d ask what they were, at first I told her, but she’d ask questions like, 'is that his leg?' and I’d have to say, ‘no actually that’s his sword’ or something tiresome like that, so eventually I just started saying that they were all monsters. As a monster is enough of an abstract to have no definitive shape I didn't get anywhere near as many questions, which was what I wanted, though in hind-sight this may have been because my parents were rather worried. Anyways, the reason I’m bringing this all up is that this amazing Korean artists has taken children’s pictures and tried to realise them as photos and the results are just amazing.
Yeondoo Jung
23/05/08 @ 00:42