“My work stimulates certain parts of the memory which are experienced by people’s transition. Like ‘Red Queen’s race’, we have to compete harder to maintain the current status in this excessive and globalized society where we are exposed to multiple cultures, which bring endless questions of identity. Through this work, my concern is focused on the individual’s status in these circumstances. My question is what we have forgotten and what is missing while living in this over-competitive society. To answer this, I tried to pull out the memories that can be shared with others. This project begins with selecting the objects. Mostly, I choose them based on my personal experience and related researches. My interest in certain objects has been heavily infuenced by the experiences of my youth in Arizona, where there was a very small population of Far East Asians at the time. There are some rules; the object should not be too private and is not exclusively related to the youth or certain locations such as monuments. In this way, both the object and background do not limit the imagination. Generalizing my objects leads to open the relation with the viewers. These objects chosen in a certain city, where I have personal memories but also pretty strange at the same time, encourages communication with the artist. It is also important to choose which part of the object is taken. I decide the number of images in regards to what is the feature of the object and the surrounding circumstances, which investigates the harmony of artificial and natural aspects. When the object is exposed to the viewers, the audience's reaction may be different depending on the direction of their viewing and the background images that surround the object. This multi-layering and mid sepia-warm tone color confuses the audience into wondering if they actually have the related memories or not. Each image was taken by large format color negatives and piled up on the computer after scanned. ” Dong Yoon Kim, September 2009