Heesu Jeon
I am a human recorder of my personal history, using animated
images, emotional abstraction, cubist composition, and natural
signs. I mix the exterior appearance of my daily life—whose
order and hierarchy have lost their meaning—with the internal
nature, or essence, that resides within it. The internal nature, or
essence, here refers to “the inscape” that is redefined through
the combination of the mundane reality and the psychic realm of
the mind. Through the patterns and symbolic signs of American
comics and Japanese anime, I depict the experience of my
everyday life as well as the Korean social identity. In order to make
visible the existence of the everyday, I give form to the emotional
exchanges, circumstantial dynamics, and relationships among
the people who reside in the world. It is my long-term goal that
my chronological records will show not only my personal history
but also form a part of contemporary history, and this will emerge
if I keep recording my story throughout my life.