“Bondage of The Mind No.2”

Abstract

Concept: “Bondage of the Mind” reveals the structural bond between body and mind. It is the structural circumstance of human that reacts in a restraining manner and builds the bondage imprisioning the freedom in the soul of human beings. Even oneself cannot stop this occurrence from the endless hunger. It makes us depressed and aggressive in reactions. If a human accepts himself that his mind is free and differ from the body, he definitely lives as his mind liberates from fleshly bondage and will probably finds his true self. In addition, the materials used in this artwork affect the art expression into two-dimentional visual art. As an artist, I am interested in the characteristics of wood - the living material that was once a small seed growing up by the earth, water, air and environment. The wood characters of each annual ring are different in its hardness. The expression the texture left on the wood after carving, grating and pressing the ink on the wood reflects traces of corroding outer surface, leaving the intense depression of the bondage between body and soul.