Reflection of Crops

Artist's note

Driving down the highway late at night, you can see a brightly lit vinyl greenhouse complex next to the road that looks like a lot of space stations. Inside, sesame(k-kaes-ip) leaves are growing. Due to the nature of the development of sesame(k-kaes-ip) leaves, it is said that soft sesame leaves are produced by lighting the fire at night. Also, if you go through a country road, you will always come across a vinyl green house. In it, many kinds of fruits and vegetables that satisfy our “food” such as tomatoes, strawberries, lettuce, and watermelon are grown so that they can be harvested all year round. Greenhouses are frost-resistant and maintain a constant temperature, providing us with fresh crops throughout the season. However, if damage is caused by natural disasters such as heavy snow, rainy season, or hail, the plastic will be replaced, or if the cultivated crop is changed, even the frame pipe will be replaced according to the crop. The aggregate is bent once, and the reuse rate is low, so it can no longer be used for its intended purpose. For this reason, it is common to see a landscape of pipes piled up on one side of the countryside. It is a work of projecting the colors of the crops grown with the frame on a pipe that has served as a gray galvanized color for the rest of its life as an exterior finishing material for the pavilion. Although he protected and nurtured the colorful and green crops in his arms with a gray color during the function, in the reproduced work, he projects the various colors of the crops that he has grown, thereby becoming a master rather than wealth as a new material.

Introduction

In the playground of Wadong branch school is an architectural café pavilion. The artist who designed both the inside and outside of the structure sells noodles, the Korean version of fast food, and set up a shop that sells honey and Korean rice beverage, the symbol of slow food, as well as a coffee shop and art shop. Inside the pavilion, various content will be presented based on collaboration between local organizations, agencies, and local citizens. What is noteworthy is the artist’s work made of discarded pipes. He gathered pipes used as a frame of a vinyl greenhouse, recycled them as materials for his work, and put them on the exterior of the structure. This abstract painting added rhythms and new vitality to the exterior of the structure that could have been dull. This pavilion will serve as another resting place like the pond and the space for communication as well as a structure and artwork, just like a symbol in the playground.