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  Artist Statement
Laugh

People in laughter.
Live and laugh, love and laugh, be thankful and laugh,
be happy and laugh, laugh with joy, laugh with sorrow,
cry and laugh, laugh in farewell, laugh in awkwardness,
laugh in barter, laugh in despair, laugh with failure,
laugh in excitement, laugh genuinely, laugh in secrecy,
laugh in order to laugh, Like this, we laugh in our encounter,
you and I.

We laugh in our lives in seven emotions;
joy, wrath, sorrow, pleasure, love, hatred and greed.
Face, in a naked place, as if it speaks on behalf of life,
waiving and withstanding, wrinkled concaved feature flutters.
In cold and strong wind, it keeps crying, its nose keeps running,
and it keeps perspiring. It keeps breathing.

Gazing at your face with my head up,
I come face-to-face with myself.
Your face and my face overlap each other's,
as my face comes across your hands.
Possession free of any other;
Youth for youth, aging for aging, it hides its trace
and ends up showing itself once again.
Eyes are incapable of hiding their truth in the end.
Once again, the life’s mortal laughter.

A person in a laughter
Laugh that may or may not exist,
laugh at none-existence of the present,
sarcastic laugh towards the world,
laughter at mortality’s end,
watching a breathless laughter at a ceased time.
The world’s uncountable laughter,
freed laughter from above reasons,
from which and what
and free from all possessions.
Where laughter of the two, you and I,
seems vague of encountering, unleashing the weight,
beginning from the end’s start,
whether the laughter is from freedom at its truth.

People in laughter.
Facing squinting light of an intense sun,
facing the unknown of a fuzzy darkness,
facing a hollow space and various sized contours at its beyond,
constantly roaming for life’s purpose,
making laughter with chasing the unknown.
Fragments of this laughter; undetermined encountering with a stranger,
eye to eye, greeting, farewell, relationship, encouragement,
trading big laughter, breathless whispers.
Bringing forth laughter as the above,
the everlasting moment.

The identity and cause of laughter
at its unimportance.
Laugh for laugh,
eternity at its moment.

Reminiscing my beloved father.

Jhin Ryung