While exploring the totemic qualities of the human body, I was drawn to Jeongseung figures commonly found in villages during the Joseon Dynasty. What interested me was how these figures, through the representation of a specific face and their upright presence in the ground, generate a strong totemic force.
In this series, I attempted to assign symbolic meaning to my own face by reshaping it into multiple forms and placing it onto clay walls and clay ground. Through this gesture, the face shifts from a personal feature to a constructed symbol, reinforcing its totemic presence within the space.
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