God Plays Dice
Year 2018Personal Work
‘God plays dice’는 어떠한 정해진 인과 관계없이 신이 공평하게 주사위를 굴려 우리의 운명을 정한다면? 라는 상상을 계기로 제작한 작품이다.
작품 속의 주사위를 던지는 검은 존재는 신과 같이 절대적이거나, 혹은 우리가 절대적이다 믿는 무언가를
상징한다. 과연 주사위를 굴렸을지라도, 타인으로부터 정해지는 삶은 공평하고 정당한 것일까. 내가
절대적이라 믿는 존재는 정말 나에게 절대적일까. 작품 속 주인공이 알아채지 못했던 주사위의 존재처럼,
자신도 모르게 일상 속에서 당연하게 여기고 순응해온 것들이 있을 것이다. 하지만 나보다 먼저 앞서갔던 사람,
비가 온 뒤 고인 작은 물웅덩이와 같이 사소하고 작거나, 큰 계기를 통해 내 머리 위의 주사위를 발견할지도
모른다.
"God Plays Dice" is a piece created from the imagination that if God impartially rolls the dice without any predetermined causality, determining our destinies. The black entity throwing the dice in the artwork symbolizes something that we believe to be absolute, akin to God, or perhaps ourselves as absolute beings. Even if the dice are rolled, is life determined by others fair and just? Is the entity I believe to be absolute truly absolute for me? Just like the protagonist in the artwork who remains unaware of the existence of the dice, there may be things in our daily lives that we have taken for granted and blindly followed. However, like discovering the small puddle left behind after the rain, someone who has gone before me, through small or significant events, may lead me to discover the dice above my head.
"God Plays Dice" is a piece created from the imagination that if God impartially rolls the dice without any predetermined causality, determining our destinies. The black entity throwing the dice in the artwork symbolizes something that we believe to be absolute, akin to God, or perhaps ourselves as absolute beings. Even if the dice are rolled, is life determined by others fair and just? Is the entity I believe to be absolute truly absolute for me? Just like the protagonist in the artwork who remains unaware of the existence of the dice, there may be things in our daily lives that we have taken for granted and blindly followed. However, like discovering the small puddle left behind after the rain, someone who has gone before me, through small or significant events, may lead me to discover the dice above my head.
