INDICATION36
About 1.5 million years ago, the primitive humans—Homo erectus inhabit a depth of natural cave, catching small animals by traps, and hunting mammoth in groups using sharp chopped stone tool. Then, they enjoyed their dish circled the started fire burned by flints, and cooking caught meats.
Also, the indigenous peoples in Africa slipped into huts with covered a mat made from leaves and straw tied together with bark, after arranged collected shrubs into dome-shaped or cone-shaped structures.
When they migration, they carried skeletal frame of huts and, sometimes wicker doors on camels and donkey.
The Icon recognizability starts from CIRCLE.
My first year of kindergarten son draws all animals and people roundly, in the grasp of pure his hand, the stick brings forth circles without destination on the ground, and upon them he frolics and leaps.
The circle may be the shape that humanity moulds unconsciously.
The outline emphasis a round is tracing the start of people’s community, personality, conduct, and life.
In human life, the omens of what is yet to come — phenomena or sense that lies before events unfold, in nature or among people — The very “Indication” that herald the rise of community.
It is unstable being, yet something is destined is sure to happen.
This work is an installation that gives tangible form to the process by which humanity shifted from a nomadic hunter-gatherer way of life to settled agricultural living and communities began to form.
Discs 1,200 mm in diameter are scattered in a grid-like arrangement, positioned as outlines that abstractly evoke the landscape of a settlement.
The uniformly arranged discs represent individual dwellings while also suggesting the structure of a community, formed through the distances and relationships between them.
The lauan laminated plywood used as the material is a substance in which multiple layers overlap to produce a single strength, and is understood here as the “structure” of a community in which people build society through collaboration.
In addition, each disc is tilted slightly by a stone, and its orientation suggests the position of the sun, expressing how human life is tied to nature and the cycle of time.
As viewers walk among them, the scattered elements take on spatial relationships, and a settlement emerges.
