TAEHWA RIVER ECO ART FESTIVAL 2018 : Once a God – The myth of Future refugees

Pavilion for Life on the Road
2018, Acrylic on Core plywood, Installation four lumps of Flat structure on the ground

Roadkill is one of the many deaths we encounter in everyday life. The blood trail from roadkills make us think about the relationship between civilization and nature, man and other live beings. This work is installed on the ground to serve as a pavilion for life on the road. My previous series of works, “painted”, which is part of the “Color as Adjective” series, are arranged with temporary and formal structures.

I carefully selected ten keywords for the colored structures: 
Plane 1- touched
Plane 2 – strong, engraved on my mind
Plane 3 – lonesome, precious, pitiful
Plane 4 – indefinite, fear, devastated, affectionate
This work is a ritual gesture and an elegy for all living beings.

At the dusk of dawn
They are our light and air
The moment when their eyes twinkle in the dark forest
My heart misses a beat 

They were born weak and small
Regardless of their strong will for survival in the dangerous wilderness
Their unexpected fate awaited them
Traces of their moment in life
Now engraved on the road

Lonely always
Precious nevertheless
Therefore powerless

Leaving my crying mother fearful of no tomorrow
Walking through the red light at the dusk of dawn
The breath of thin air over the hot asphalt road
Leaving everything they longed for but love
They surrender to the road

Once a god they were our light and air

2018. leekyong