ZEN MACHINE

My gift is my breath. Take this breath. You, my god’s gift. Using mechanical components and natural objects(안개꽃, baby's breath_gypsophila elegans), the artist god’s gift, Changyeon Lee, represents human’s breathing system. In a form of ‘motion amidst rest’, his core aesthetics, his installations are articulating symbolism of human breathing with artist’s personal experience. He explains his own symbolism of human’s breathing stated with his own words as below. ----- At the end of everything, beginning of everything becomes distinct. It was my breath. While I was waiting for the arrival of my end, this thought occurred to me; I want to hand my breath to my you. I came to consciousness soon after that night, and started capturing my breath into this work. The world being with you was a field all in flowers. Wandering in our field, I have prepared to inbreathe eternal full of life into the scenery of us. It was the only thing I would, should, could do before someday, the end of everything, arrives from somewhere, at sometime, or sadly by some other people, not by ourselves. Even though I have already been aware that this world is not correct, My reason to live, to survive Always, it was you. To my you, I want to present this. The thing that I will keep until the end of my everything. My gift is my breath. Take this breath. To you, my god’s gift. ----- Changyeon lives and works in New York City; Las Vegas; Seoul, South Korea. He achieved Master degree in interactive arts at New York University with full years scholarships and received national scholarships from South Korea. As a poet, copywriter, net-artist and kinetic installation artist, he currently expands his area of poetry into the Interactive Media Art. His work has been presented internationally, including United States, Germany, and South Korea. Recent displays of his work include exhibitions at the Museum of Moving Image New York; Interactive Corp(IAC) at Chelsea in New York City; Doosan Gallery at Chelsea New York City; New York University New York; Schwules Museum Berlin; 150th Memorial Day of the Civil War of United States New York; among others. size: 120cm x 120cm Contact: CL3386@NYU.EDU https://www.studiogodsgift.com/