Haejae Debbie OH

Buddhism, originated from India around 2,500 years ago, asserts that the human life is one of suffering, and that meditation, spiritual and physical labor, and good behavior are the ways to achieve enlightenment, or nirvana.

Through the China's oldest mythologies entitled Shan-hai Ching (Classic of Mountains and Seas, 山海經) and the Tarot card, I challenged to apply the Eastern cultural values and meanings to the Western unconscious and fantasy.

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” - E.E. Cummings

In pursuit of interculturalism, I’m keen to blend Eastern and Western cultures through my art. Playing on Ginseng’s resemblance to the human form, I borrowed this Eastern plant for the “rebirth” of the humanism-based Renaissance artworks.

Vanitas (Latin for 'vanity') is a genre of art in 16th and 17th centuries, which uses symbolism to show the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death. The paintings involved still life imagery of transitory items.

As the American writer Michael Pollan said, “You are what you eat.” Basically it is important to eat good food in order to be healthy and fit; moreover, we need to seriously think about what food means to us and why we eat it. Unlike in the past when