:Brooklyn bridge

 :Relief/calm/ healing

 :W/B and color photography and some drawing (rough skyscraper at the bottom)

When I first stepped up to the Brooklyn bridge, I heard the sounds of cars  speeding, wind blowing and people chatting. Those sounds helped me to remove my complex thought and sense of overwhelming which I got after I arrived NYC. Eventually, it made me to experience the emotion ‘calm’ and ‘relief’. Actually, I chose this space intentionally because I knew that I will have a chance to get out of relentless tension and feel relief by visiting the Brooklyn bridge. This is because, I have a similar area as Brooklyn bridge in my home and I used to go there to have this same emotion and to heal my mind and refresh myself. I’ve missed there and need to feel relief.

In Seoul, Korea, I used to go to the above the Young-dong bridge at night ,which is located on  the Han-river. When I go there I usually look at the night view of the river, lights from the buildings and listen to the sound of cars speeding . When I have a tough day, this space gave me a courage and gave me a feeling that I am not the only person in this big complicated city by looking many  busy cars and lights from the skyscrapers where people will be all working hard and have their own stress even until late night . Also, because it is the river, it is one step away from the many buildings, I can feel the fresh air blowing from the river and gave me a chance to breath deeply and get recharged my mind which was wounded and exhausted by trying hard to catch up others. It was near by my house so it was perfect space for relaxing my mind and to get a sense of relief. So, I’ve missed there and need to feel calm and relief, I wanted to go Brooklyn bridge.

I chose not  the drawing but real photographs because I wanted to show the real view of what I have seen and my real facial expression rather than sketching. As for the layout, I wanted to put pictures of my facial expression ‘overwhelmed’ on the first row and to explain that also I felt mixed feeling between excitement and nervous because of the new start in NYC before I visited Brooklyn bridge. That’s why I split a picture of my anxiety in to half for color and half for b/w to show odd mix of emotion and arranged them the shape of zigzag. I put big picture at the bottom to show that I finally felt emotion ‘relief’ by visiting the bridge. It expressed by my body gesture. At the bottom, I sketched a river view and the Brooklyn bridge by using figures of photoshop to make poster more tight with theme.