Anti-Ideal Face
On this land, anti-ideal faces are not desired. From childhood to adulthood, both the environment and the social value system keep repeating the same instruction:
do not become someone like this, do not grow into a face like this,
do not step into a life like this.
Over time, they form a group that society warns people not to resemble— a group that truly exists, yet is actively or passively pushed out of visibility.
In this project, I chose not to simply document them. Instead, I use a form of secondary creation, allowing these faces to leave their usual state of invisibility and become a complete work— an image that deserves to be looked at, an image that invites a gaze.
When a face is transformed into an artistic image, it gains the possibility of being seen. It asks the viewer to pause, to stay with it for a moment, and to remember it.