Looking for
THE TURESELF
LOOKING FOR THE TURESELF The process of human growth is the process of finding one's self after all This work is a series of 12 photographic collages and illustrations that figuratively depict a mysterious figure in the process of growth The series delivers a hopeful message that faces confusion and real pain in the process of growth but eventually realizes the importance of the process rather than the outcome
1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9 - 10
Finding Yourself maze Mirage Phantom Blind
11 - 12 13 - 14 15 - 16 17 - 18 19 - 20 21 - 21
Fake Face Loss of Emotion Can't hold on Moments of Struggle Pain Cold and Warmth
finding yourself
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From the moment we are born, we are on a journey to find ourselves. Learn your preferences, habits through various experiences Know your personality, enrich your personality This road is a road without direction. The road is full of temptations and traps. Both danger and safety There is no turning back
maze
From the moment we are born It's like being placed in a maze with no right answers There is no right or wrong answer no matter which direction you choose Maybe someone will stand as if from God's perspective Tell you what You should choose this You should live like this At what age should you do what you do
Each person's life is his or her own The labyrinth that belongs to each of us looks different Every corner in the maze determines a different outcome When the exit from the maze will appear It's not the maze itself But in our own hearts
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mirage Is life real or unreal? In reality, although there are universally accepted theories such as materialism and idealism Like a mirage, in one's own consciousness life can be either side, there are many things in the world that others say are true and they are not necessarily true others say they are false and they are not necessarily false and the only judge of everything is oneself Sometimes we can be deceived by the appearance of reality and sometimes we can voluntarily fall into the trap of falsehood If you insist on distinguishing between truth and fiction the process is as endless as the Mosby ring
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phantom Sometimes we get caught up in the whirlpool of dreams It's so sweet and colorful you can't help yourself It's so comfortable that you forget yourself forget everything Human beings are creatures that indulge in comfortable environments But is this something to be blamed for? Or do we have to break this beautiful environment? Neither one of them is the right answer
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There are millions of lives in the world both long and short and some people see it as their goal to give up their whole selves for one thing Some people think they just need to have a leisurely and happy day as a goal Others never establish any goals Just like a leaf that falls you can find your way to any situation What lies at the end of all this no one knows But we're still pushing forward and there's no reason for that
blind
fake face In this noisy and colorful world Human beings will always follow the flow of human weakness and be corrupted by all colors and forms Completely change your personality depending on your environment Like a chameleon, it is a means of self-preservation It's also a train to the abyss
12
As we get older, we must maintain our lives in some way At this point maybe we can't be called human Although we still have human flesh But the most important thing has been lost
What makes man a superior animal It is because human beings have feelings and an autonomous consciousness Perhaps at a young age we can still be called people
loss of emotion
14
I desperately wanted to grab something, but I was afraid that if I grabbed too close to it it would hurt, and if I let go it would slip out of my hands Maybe it doesn't want to be caught or maybe it wants to be caught on purpose and whether I can tell the difference depends on whether I want to or not Perhaps something is holding me back from getting too close to the thread a thread I created myself but it seems to have a consciousness of its own and doesn't follow my directions and even if I had the toughest knife in the world I couldn't cut it
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momens of struggle If we could choose to be born or not be born while still in our mother's womb I would have pressed the NO button It is an undisputed fact that once a person has a mind he feels pain, but without his mind he is just a puppet and loses the most fundamental meaning of being a "human being" To live is the ultimate explanation of the word "contradiction
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There is so much pain in the world Even though it is painful there are many people who are willing to dwell on the pain It is as if the only way to feel truly alive is to feel pain What a paradox of human nature! Can pain also make you happy? Is it because you become paralyzed and fearless? I don't know.
pain 20
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cold and warmth
In the end Choosing to continue living because you don't have the courage to die Time is passing by day by day. The human body is aging day by day. No matter how deep the waters No matter how cold and frosty These are constant. So, discard some of the thoughts in your head Just so, at your own pace. Go slowly