While trying to balance humor and melancholy, I consider how to be human within these architectural gestures of the institution.  I am especially fascinated with these spaces being used as a place of learning and creativity.  I find humor in trying to locate discovery in these spaces.  Impulses for play, whimsy, and magic are often made irrelevant by these deceptively anonymous and innocuous places.  I am excited by those brief moments when certain gestures, whether physical or intellectual, can suggest a hidden world of fancy or fantasy in these other wise inconsiderate places.  The images are not intended as bitter criticism but as hopeful transgressions.  I want to know how the process of creative endeavors look and feel, when they are forced to adapt to a space that was meant to contain, divide, and standardize. 

Dong Hoon Jun

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