Lost Chrysanthemums: a Tribute to the Sewol Ferry Sinking, 2017
Multimedia (Watercolor and ink scans, Photoshop, Processing)

This Processing Program is to be seen as a digital project on a large wall or screen in an enclosed room. (Processing is a coding program for visual artists.) The projected enlarged flowers fall and disappear from the wall. This recorded video is a 15-minute screen recording of my original program made with Processing, which runs in an infinite loop.

Yellow Chrysanthemums have a "flower meaning" disappointment and unrequited[unanswered/unreturned/one-sided] love.

This yellow flower has become a symbol for consolation in organized events surrounding the Sewol Sinking incident. In "Lost Chrysanthemums" each Chrysanthemum flower represents a lost life. 304 Unblossomed Chrysanthemums sit at the bottom of the screen to represent the 294 dead and 10 missing lives from the sinking of the Sewol Ferry.

This program is a tribute to the young lives lost in the Sewol Sinking in South Korea. I hope to bring public attention towards the Sewol Sinking, to console the affected people. I intend to show the coexistence of sadness and beauty with the materiality of the work, as Artist Doris Salcedo does in her exhibit "The Materiality of Mourning." A digital medium is used to create a human and emotional materiality to create appropriate levels of nuance and atmosphere.