Sugar Sweetens Dispositions
Sugar Sweetens Dispositions challenges the stereotypical idea of the Western culture being superior to the Eastern practices. To give a bit of color and trigger extra thoughts of the fellow students, we made a digital collage out of Sip-jangsaeng-do “Ten Symbols of Longevity”, and black and white magazine cut outs. To juxtapose the West and the East, we chose a busy background that is in color, while the girls on the front of the magazines are in black and white. Although the Eastern culture is represented in the background, it does not lose its presence for it has bright colors. The Western culture - although it does not have color, has its prominence by standing in the foreground.
Passage
A man has just jumped out of the yellow door that does not seem to belong anywhere. Jumping out of nowhere we know, this man carries his past behind him. He starts fresh by opening this bright yellow door and leaps on the water. The stepping stones behind him suggest the recorded history of the man. The absence of rocks in front of him implies that he is the one to write his own story in the future. The stones do not matter much to him - they are only moments that shall pass in a while.