Magical dreams…2010

Byul
Doshi
Namoo

This is just brief idea sketches for one of my charater designs, done by free hand using pencil and then traced with pen tool.

Byul

My drop shadow is always following me with his body covered with spiky hairs like hedgehog as if his part of me.
I don’t care who you are but can you please help me to hide when the sun goes down? I really need to get out of this place…

Doshi

The worms wriggled out of my windows…
Without wondering where they came from, they wriggled and wriggled and magically escaped from reality.

Namoo

When I keep me slient, I hear my heart pounding and I feel that everything surrond me start to gather round, shaking their fins with the rhythm of my heart, trying to awaken me from the dreams…

Copyright © 2012 Naeri Love Lee

These are my rough sketches which will be updated frequently.

These are my snap shots while I was travelling around Europe in 2008.

The photographs are taken from UK, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Itlay and Netherland.

Wander through Shadows: Part two.

These are my snap shots while I was travelling around Europe in 2008.
The photographs are taken from UK, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Itlay and Netherland.

78% resolution of Silence and Blindness 2010

Multi-play between virtual and real space_Cyber-realism

Desirable Place 2006

Through my art I seek to experience and explore the concerns about idealised beauty for woman by creating a virtual identity of myself. My photographs present me with both varied and replicated features.  I appear as an artificialised, robotic, or doll-like human being that floats in time and space. These images are a reflection of my imagination and fantasies, influenced by an obsession with the visual aspects of idealised beauty.Technology allows us to experience changes and to fullfill our dream of being stereotypically beautiful women with idealised features. These desires are created and fuelled by viewing famous stars, and fantasic characters, from promotional advertisements, movies, games, and animations, who seem to have everything.  These stars have all been altered in some way (such as surgery, or reforming) to appear as perfect women in a visual sense. I am disturbed by the fact that around half of my friends had surgery in their late teens, often as a graduation gift from their parents. This normalises surgery I am questioning whether these transformations warp our viewpoint and program our mind to accept the stereotypes as the ideal, taking control of reality with its potential.

From my observation, this desire to make a fantasy world into reality also seems to also influenced some of artists, namely, Orlan who challeges and experiences her own features being changed through plastic surgery.  In this way, she sends a direct message by placing herself in the real situation where, as Mariko Mori present herself as if she exits in a fantasic environment, she created in a rather playful mode, revealing how people are obsessed with a virtual creative character and space which can be easily created in this computer age.

I am also interested in a Japanese subculture called Kosupure, centred on disguising oneself as one’s own favourite character.  In some circles, this takes the form of “cosplay” in English, which is expanding world-wide.

The digital variation of the features of my face and body allows me to transform myself, with my prediction of what the future might bring from the over-used potential of technology, destroying naturalness and causing everything to be out of originality and not be recognisable.

Fish boy 2012

“A captured fishboy eating rotten fish to survive is allowed to live in an old boat by a fisherman in return for hard work.”

Software used: Maya, Mental ray, Photoshop, After Effects
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ARTIFIDENTITY 2005

For me, art is a journey of self-discovery. It is my own way of exploring, analyzing, and expressing my identity. My work represents a reforming of natural objects, according to my own inspiration. I start with images of three-dimensional living things that I have photographed just everyday images that surround me. I am thereby making a statement about the relationship between peoples personalities and the societies in which they live. What the public sees is not the original image, but one that has been remade according to my own concepts.

Through my art work, I have attempted to explore the concept of covering. People attempt to disguise who they really are by the way they speak and dress, or by changing their appearance through cosmetic surgery. To convey this idea of covering, my art uses human skin and plants to replace, or cover, the naturalness of the design of the original form. The flower tissue is replaced by human skin and other natural images. There is, of course, something artificial, something phony, about it all just as ones imitation of an idealized personality can never be more than an artificial construct.