THE SCHOOL OF ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

THE FRAME OF THOUGHT

Acrylic Puzzle Sculpture

Acrylic board, Styrene & ABS plastic solvent cement

“The frame of thought” is a visual representation of myself. 

The scope of application can be applied to “a person who has F-1 status like me as an international student”, "a person who was born in Korea but lives in the U.S.” or “a person is American, but is closely related to Korea."

The frame of the puzzle means a place where I belong physically or mentally. Language is a method of conveying my thoughts.

Each piece of puzzle is my idea. My thoughts and actions take place in my native and living environment. The thoughts are also transformed and refined according to differences in opinion that will be answered when shared with others. Or the idea could be contaminated by prejudice or perception that I am a foreigner who is non-American. 

Therefore, I have the ownership of my thoughts, but in a way, you have ownership of my thought as well because your thought will be influenced by my verbal expression.

I cannot predict how the link of different combinations would look like when one piece of my puzzle to another, then two pieces of different pieces are connected and combined with another thoughts within that frame, that is a location or a place as I defined above. That is why thoughts are dangerous in some ways, but they also possess unlimited possibilities on the other. 

The thickness of the puzzle may have made it easier for people to pick it up, but in other words, it is potential to thicken my thoughts in the frame and develop them into 3D beyond 2D. 

Although there are only two countries, flag of Korea and the flag of the United States in the puzzle, I hope to create, experience a wider frame of thoughts and develop them into multi-dimensional ideas, not just staying in flat that has only 2 sides.

Now I grant the permission to take a fragment of my thought, a piece of puzzle, and find a specific position to locate it into my frame of thought to you who are reading this description. It is up to your decision to locate it within my frame of thought.

I will look forward you to have new thoughts while you communicate with my piece of art by moving and positioning my thoughts.