A Dedication to Lee Choon-Sop: 3 minutes
Lee Choon-Sop was a Korean theology student imprisoned for protesting the death of a fellow theology student. "A Dedication to Lee Choon-Sop" was created for an Amnesty International fund-raiser, to aid prisoners of conscience world-wide. The video features a series of photographic images projected onto different materials, primarily cloth and sheet rock, that are manipulated to suggest the torture to which Lee was subjected by the Korean government. During one part of the video, a slide image of an Asian man's back was projected onto sheet rock, and the sheet rock was beaten with a pole. As the sheet rock crumbled, it suggested the peeling away of layers of skin. During another part, a frontal image of an Asian man is projected onto cloth. Hands emerge from the top of the frame and roll up the cloth and the image of the man with it, suggesting the dissolution of the body and soul.

"I try to be aware of social and cultural conditions that are not part of my own experience and elucidate elements of those conditions in my work."