Choi WonJun and Colling Status

• It started around when I was twenty. And that situation has been remembered as a dictionary and has continued for a long time. It's been with me and you since some time, and what I'm about to say is that old story. I know for sure, but I might be writing with the image floating in my head. It has many names, and many people will understand it in the words of division and cold war. There was something a long time ago and it was the beginning, but I decided not to mention it here. I worked hard for over two years to confirm that reality, and this behavior of mine was possible because the times had changed. I know people who did this with a clear purpose not long ago. But even my aimless behavior would have been enough reason for someone to take me somewhere if it had been in the past. Maybe all artistic attempts are not without purpose, but the start of this work had no purpose for me. Because it's a kind of action that a viewer can do. I just observed this and enjoyed the new and cold feeling that the landscape where function and purpose are combined gives me.
• Most of these long-resting facilities have a common point in that they are waiting for a war that may happen at any time, not for attack but for defense as the main purpose. Bunkers and beats and defensive walls and lines that any Korean adult man would know well are the main subjects I observed. And all of these can be talked about with words such as camouflage, construction, and arrangement. These military facilities want to hide their real substance by revealing a kind of fictitious facade to the viewer by camouflaging themselves, which is one of the traditional camouflage methods of military facilities. Also, the functionality that determines the form is shown by using solid concrete, and the defensive wall performs its function by blasting concrete to block the road. But the defensive walls that have not yet performed their function have been built into one space, losing their temporality in the concept of camouflage or concealment, enduring tense times in their place. It even makes me think that it looks like a method of practical camouflage that is assimilated into nature as if it were part of nature, which is applied to military facilities in nature such as bunkers and beats. However, the feeling given by the old temporality looks beautiful regardless of the representation of the place. This beauty would have been much different from the emotion when some art graduate soldier drew a map in a bunker, but it looks enough to have wanted to express this paradoxical beauty in his mural. This paradoxical beauty is slowly being covered under the desire for economic development.
• The representative work of the outskirts economic development, the Eunpyeong New Town project, is being implemented, and the more the land is dug and the mountains are cut, the internal structure of the hidden military facilities is revealed, and soldiers and construction workers are excavating instead of archaeologists on the site. One by one, the disappearing military relics, intertwined with the desire for nothing new in New Town, can be seen as one aspect of political and social changes in North Korea policy. This is a process of heading towards the reconstruction of new desires along with the dismantling of constructed time, and the landscape shows an orderly arrangement like a defensive line. This is a camouflage and concealment of another area, but it gives many people a pleasant imagination about wealth. And the military facilities that are disappearing before the desire that has already surpassed the logic of national security have not fulfilled their mission and all that started are escaping from somewhere in the solid concrete gap and going somewhere. They, who were made to meet all needs, are now going somewhere where there is nothing, and I don't know if it's the influence of some transcendental power that I can't see or because of the slow steps of time that I can't visualize. However, I know that a new meaning should be given to that vacant place at any time, and that newness will become a vacancy again.
• UNDERCOOLED : In chemistry, it refers to the state of overcooling, which remains as a liquid without turning into ice even when it goes below the freezing point (0 degrees Celsius).