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1. Evolution and Theory 2. Blackfield
DAVID makes in-depth observations of nature and life and visualizes the outcomes in a very simple method. His work consists of minute lines of the silhouettes of human figures or plants cut delicately out of iron plates standing on the floor. The viewers are presented with the joy and surprise of self-awakening and at the same time are guided to the profound insights of life. In recent years he produced large-scale installations through this technique and has intended to show it in real to those in various places throughout the world, as if he was a magician who makes use of optical tricks or a missionary. Evolution and theory since 1991 is one of such major works of his.
Unlike Evolution and Theory installed in a way to be seen from one single direction, his Black Field, which has been touring to many different places in the world since 2004, allows one to see it from both its front and rear. Over the floor of sand in a rectangular space are standing thousands of thinnest silhouettes of plants. From itsfront, it is all black suggesting the world of death as if it was an aftermath of a nuclear war. On the contrary, the back of the plants’silhouettes is painted in a range of colors, and as the viewers walk by in slow steps, it transforms itself a space in which varieties of colors roll in chorus. The space exuberant with plants is filled with life force. In Black Field the cheerful and gay color contrasts are befittingly descriptive of life and death through the unification of before and after.
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