Exploring the fluidity of periphery and core.

• We live among people who take different things for granted. This is because I think it is natural for the other person to say something or do something I don't understand, causing conflict between passionately married newlyweds or co-workers who work in the same office all day. Of course, these problems are not always caused by the other party. The other person will probably think of me as strange as I feel.
• What do we take for granted and what do we find strange? There may not be one answer to this question, but it is clear that one of the important variables is that various experiences have been accumulated depending on the region in which one was born and raised. Kim, TaeDong's 'Break days' is a work that depicts an environment that one has never left in one's life.
• Kim, TaeDong's 'Break days' is a work that depicts an environment that one has never left in one's life. He was born in northwest Seoul and still lives there. In other words, it is the artist's home and the standard of naturalness. The area most familiar to the author is unfamiliar to those who have not lived there because it has never been the center of Seoul. Some of the people who live there, travel to the center of Seoul every day for work and live with the vague expectation that they might one day leave. Someone else might be comforting themselves, thinking it's special, rather than leaving a neighborhood they've become so naturally accustomed to. The author's familiarity with his hometown encompasses all these conflicting expectations and adaptations.
• Just as a perfect picture of everything from a major street to a small alley can easily be drawn in his head, his mind is filled with psychological maps for the various people who live there. Just as remembering the church building that was there before the huge apartment complex was built, a high school student with yellow hair not only knows where he spends his time and what he wants to be, but also what the billiard room owner dressed in a black dress has lived and given up on.
  If you are familiar with something and accept it naturally, you must have an understanding that encompasses both the outside and the inside. As a result, the virtue of familiarity in his work is that it has the power to see through the essence of the object just by looking at it indifferently. The technique of his point of view penetrates the topographical features and humans, or the outside and inside. The countless experiences and memories that made him a person there for a long time must have given him that coast.
  The area he sees as an object is the stage where the artist himself was created, and his life there is not much different from the artist's life. The artist's familiarity with all the geographical features in the area is something that cannot be experienced only by a short moment of collision, but it is not that difficult for us to sympathize with the desire that has been buried deep in our memories and hearts through the places and characters in his work.
• We are both the main characters in our own lives and at the same time people around us. The areas and people in Kim, TaeDong's photos show the inevitable instability of the surroundings and the people around them. However, the artist who captures them begins by tracing the changes and transformations experienced in the past, that is, the trajectory that created the present, and looks at the people living there now as the main characters. The pointed building, built less than 10 years ago, is rather shabby rather than luxurious and sophisticated, but it stretches toward the sky like the Tower of Babel. The young man who is dressed up and looking into space will remain somewhere between the periphery and the center today, but the days he will live in the future will be much more than the days he has lived so far. This perspective reveals the intersection of the artist's love and hatred toward the people around him living in the surrounding city.
• If Kim, TaeDong had wanted to stay only by virtue of familiarity, his work would probably have been nothing more than a diary written while wandering around his hometown. The second perspective he used is an attempt to look at familiar objects in an unfamiliar way. Of course, he tried to investigate the buildings and alleys he thought were there, as if following someone else's gaze. This is why time and space strangely overlap in the distant landscape, and the rich desires of the people you meet on the street can be sensed. By making an effort to take a closer look again at a slower pace than usual, the author tried to overcome the errors of perception that familiarity can cause.
• Changing your fixed perspective is a shortcut to maturing your perception. Through this work, the author reveals the diversity of our lives, both surrounding and main character. Some people challenge or adapt to a given environment. The human need for attention is not the will to choose between two things, but the instability itself of having to stay in one place and constantly look around. That wriggling desire can become a driving force that moves between the periphery and the center and creates our tomorrow different from today.