{"id":5618,"date":"2011-11-20T17:03:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/20\/very-cool-korean-artist-yeong-deok-seo-creates\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:45:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:45:37","slug":"very-cool-korean-artist-yeong-deok-seo-creates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/20\/very-cool-korean-artist-yeong-deok-seo-creates\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-5618 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/20\/very-cool-korean-artist-yeong-deok-seo-creates\/attachment\/5619\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_lui289D1iQ1qzxaqho1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_lui289D1iQ1qzxaqho1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/tumblr_lui289D1iQ1qzxaqho1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Very cool!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Korean artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.naver.com\/duck8383\" target=\"_blank\">Yeong-Deok Seo<\/a>\u00a0creates imposing figurative sculptures using tightly knit configurations of welded bicycle chains and industrial steel chains. While impressive in their intricacy and the apparent skill required to create them, the artwork\u2019s titles such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.naver.com\/duck8383\" target=\"_blank\">Infection \u2013 Anguish<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.naver.com\/duck8383\" target=\"_blank\">Infection \u2013 Ego<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.naver.com\/duck8383\" target=\"_blank\">Addict<\/a>, suggest the rippled surface created by the materials is not an arbitrary decision. These are figures of individuals in dispair, pockmarked with disease, the chains acting as a metaphor for the human condition. See much more of Seo\u2019s work spanning the past several years\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.naver.com\/PostThumbnailList.nhn?blogId=duck8383&amp;categoryNo=17&amp;skinType=&amp;skinId=&amp;userSelectMenu=true\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5858510\/bike-chains-welded-into-the-shape-of-human-despair\/gallery\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very cool! Korean artist\u00a0Yeong-Deok Seo\u00a0creates imposing figurative sculptures using tightly knit configurations of welded bicycle chains and industrial steel chains. While impressive in their intricacy and the apparent skill required to create them, the artwork\u2019s titles such as\u00a0Infection \u2013 Anguish,\u00a0Infection \u2013 Ego, and\u00a0Addict, suggest the rippled surface created by the materials is not an arbitrary &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/20\/very-cool-korean-artist-yeong-deok-seo-creates\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5620,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5618\/revisions\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}