“LEAF & LIFE”

It is very spontaneous process of creation. In this project nature, season of nature, Natural object, human feelings (by touching, smelling, looking, hearing) come to gather and transformed by the personal experience and knowledge about life.

The leaf means life, hope, adolescence, early spring, property, energy, peace, but the drip of leaf means the opposite phenomenon and affection of life. Dry leaf is a universal symbol of negativity. In the present time we have a journey to the opposite way of national and personal life. It is a root reality for us.

I was influenced by great Bengali poet Jobonanondo Das, but in this performance, I tried to transform the natural phenomenon to human emotion and feelings. by my installation. I will try to create a situation for spectator to feel the phenomenon of nature by their skin, nose, eye, ear and previous experience and knowledge of life.


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CONFLICTS OF MIND

Life has to go ahead with small steps through there are many conflicts of life. I always try to break the static of logic, idea and social form. I want to be free until I find out a new logic or reason. So this freedom can turn to another static form, then I fell on the same conflict. It is like a circle that builds one form, then break and turn to another

CONFLICTS OF MIND

At “Jagotpur Asram” Rawjan, Chittagong, during the workshop “Movement will become sculpture in 25th February-2004.

Materials: Jute thread, Plastic helmet, Screw, Steel wire transparent string, Bamboo webbings, Colored plastic, Self Figure & physical movement.

Dimension: L-10m.´W-10m. & “Environmental” (Full installation area).

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LOOK AT ME AND REFLECT UPON YOURSELF

It is the same culture that people are still practicing. They are carrying on a legacy but the religious convictions have now become a dogma. The cultural stagnation manifests in the artifacts that people here sell. They are copying the work ......... repeatedly, as if there creativity has been stiffed by this weight of history.

The frustration and the pain of this legacy are apparent in the eyes of the youth here. They are entrenched in there own history and seeing them, I too feel sad. I want to represent their feelings in my performance, and for this reason my title is ‘Look At Me And Reflect Upon Your Self.’

Look At Me and Reflect Upon Yourself

At the front space of four old temples in Bakhtapur, Nepal. During the International Artist workshop “NOGAMIKHA” (The inner eye) in 5-14th June- 2004.

Materials: Traditional Hemp thread, Hemp belt (people used it for handle hilt) colored wool thread, Flexible climbing rope, Traditional Wooden dancing mask, Small copper bell, “Thanka” The traditional & Religious painting.

Dimension: (Full installation space)L-20m.´W-15m. & “Environmental”

It is not for you but why do you run away for it????

Life in third world is covered by an enormous problem. here we have no destination for life and everything. In our mind we always make a lot of paradoxical terms. We have a lot of dreams but we are not able to materialize it in time but we always try hardly even we know that it is not possible for us. Sometime we succeed and several times we lose everything. As a passenger of a paradoxical journey, I have some self analysis in this work. We have a folk joke, “When you hang a carrot in front of the nose , Donkey must start to run”. I transformed it by my criticisms, because I need to mean something personal matter by the performance which represent the present mental condition of the youth in heir.

story of an abundant village

The nature in village Shatana was very colorless, It was very dry and hot, I found a small bush which was dry and death. My intention was about nature Within the workshop period, because it is really so opposite for my home environment, I was trying to understanding the situation and life in Jordan instead of my point of view about life and reality, I did an installation in an abundant house in the abundant village shatana.

Triangles

A public performance project in Shatana International Workshio-2008
It was extremely an unexpected event which I absorbed in my life from 3rd July to 9th July of this year, I started my journey to join in an international workshop at the village Shatana in Jordan. It was my 33rd birth day, On the way I crossed 3 airport with a lot of straggle with visa and other immigration matter within three days. Finally I got the chance to enter in Jordan, I arrived in Jordan at 3 am, we was 3 person in the car when we traveling to the shatane village from the airport, their was three organizer waiting for me to say welcome in shatana workshop venue at early morning, I got an apartment to live in the village with 2 other artists, so we was 3 in an apartment, I found that I was carrying 3 bags with
me from my home to shatana, the Program was supported by triangle international artist network London, U.K.… Their was
many 3 surround me which is not explainable to the public at all.
I had no way without thinking about the number 3 !!!
the performance was a kind of sharing the experience of 3 with public.

Please tell me know the history behind history

Bangladesh also has a pathetic history of excessive fight with own army, in 1971 we sacrifice 300000 people, 30000 women were raped by army within 9 months. That’s why I know the pain of people’s sufferings.
When I visited May 18 memorial park in Kwangju and attend to the pathetic description of killing, I can’t control myself, I was crying in the cemetery. I try to feel the pain of the victim’s family. After that I visited the May 18 memorial building, It is same as it was as at that day. I feel that the building can make conversations with me. I try to feel it by a humanistic point of view. I ask it, please tell me the history of the behind the history. Why people kill people who have same blood? Behind the history, for a future peaceful world we should find out the real history, I try to feel its heart beat. I heard the sound of death smells of blood .I have many question about democracy and truth of democracy in contemporary world.
I did a 30 min performance with a black box made by Cloth, It made various form within the performance time but finally it was backed by same form as it was before. I explain the reality and truth changed by the searching but it is not easy to find out the real thing. The targeted audience was emotional because of the space and specific national day in Korea although I use a music which was very close to the audience by national feelings.

“Searching for missed mystery of happiness”

Time always change the direction of thinking, in different age we like to think different categories of topics, it also depends on the life style, influence of society, cultural behaviors, political environment. I am trying to understand my time and surroundings by my creative visual practice, there is many way of expression, many option of media and methods. I am mostly focusing on the thought and inner feeling and knowledge about inter-personal-socio-life. I also have consciousness about my target audience and international socio political situation; in my work I try to be sensitive about the materials and object’s own language and transformation diversity of its identity. For presentation of work I like to make it easy and communicative to my targeted (artists non-artist) audiences.
From the middle of lest year I was thinking about the relation between nature and life within an spiritual context, I was visited some remote and deep natural landscape with spiritual and religious mood, But I get different understanding by every visit, I start to explain the experiences by some spontaneous drawing to using papers, ink and nib pan. I just release myself and create some mysterious illusion and creatures on the super natural space where we can visit freely without thinking and getting any pre-information’s, which gave me a close touch of an unidentified and unexplainable situation of mind, The thinking about god and super natural power sometime overlapped each other inside of my mind but the life which I live is not mach with that, It is a mysterious situation, although life has real socio biological and materialistic need too, I don’t believe on any specific religion, but I can not deny the feeling come from prayers, I distinguish that the feelings come from visiting nature and pray to god has some similarity, It can make me happy and refreshed, some time both of those activity run corresponding and substitute, I want to know the reason of that kind of happiness, I thought there is the hidden point why most of the people in the world like to think about god and goddess, why people like to think about supernatural power or something like that, what is the mechanisms in side our body and mind which encourages us to do that? So it is a searching for a mystery of happiness. It is a journey through the unknown way of a conceptual world which will serve a new epoch.

Activity: In this project I have to create a description by drawing on paper linocut print about my understanding, and physical performance with some lighted objects and nature, Total project will be represented by a full room installation with performance photo (manipulated) Video, significant music and smell.