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Do-Ho Suh abstract

Do-Ho Suh: 

Best known for his intricate sculptures;

Born in Seoul, Korea in 1962;

Earning his BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University.

Continuing his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University in US;

Living and working in both New York and Seoul;

Solo exhibitions: 

The Storefront for Art and Architecture (2010); the Serpentine Gallery; London (2002), Seattle Art Museum.

Group exhibitions:

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Biennials: 

The 49th Venice Biennale in 2001; The Liverpool Biennial in 2010.

The major museums have his collections:

The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Do-Ho Suh's background and history--Wikipedia

Do-Ho Suh was born in Seoul, Korea in 1962. After earning his BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University, and fulfilling his term of mandatory service in the South Korean military, Suh relocated to the United States to continue his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. He leads an itinerant life, hopping from his family home in Seoul (where his father is a major influence in Korean traditional painting) to his working life in New York. Migration, both spatial and psychological, has been one of Suh's themes, manifested through biographical narrative and emotionally inflected architecture. Best known for his intricate sculptures that defy conventional notions of scale and site-specificity, Suh's work draws attention to the ways viewers occupy and inhabit public space. Interested in the malleability of space in both its physical and metaphorical manifestations, Do Ho Suh constructs site-specific installations that question the boundaries of identity. His work explores the relation between individuality, collectivity, and anonymity.He has had solo exhibitions at Storefront for Art and Architecture (2010), the Serpentine Gallery, London (2002), Seattle Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, and the Artsonje Center in Korea. He has also participated in group exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Suh has participated in many biennials including the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001. In 2010 he was shown in the Liverpool Biennial, the Venice Biennale Architecture, and Media City Seoul Biennial. The artist's work is represented in a number of major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Do Ho Suh lives and works in New York City and Seoul, Korea.

Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia

Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States.[3] Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall. At least 1,836 people died in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane since the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane; total property damage was estimated at $81 billion (2005 USD),[3] nearly triple the damage wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.[4]

Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas on August 23, 2005 and crossed southern Florida as a moderate Category 1 hurricane, causing some deaths and flooding there before strengthening rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 in southeast Louisiana. It caused severe destruction along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge. The most significant number of deaths occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana, which flooded as the levee system catastrophically failed, in many cases hours after the storm had moved inland.[5] Eventually 80% of the city and large tracts of neighboring parishes became flooded, and the floodwaters lingered for weeks.[5] However, the worst property damage occurred in coastal areas, such as all Mississippi beachfront towns, which were flooded over 90% in hours, as boats and casino barges rammed buildings, pushing cars and houses inland, with waters reaching 6–12 miles (10–19 km) from the beach.

The hurricane surge protection failures in New Orleans are considered the worst civil engineering disaster in U.S history[6] and prompted a lawsuit against the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the designers and builders of the levee system as mandated by the Flood Control Act of 1965. Responsibility for the failures and flooding was laid squarely on the Army Corps in January 2008 by Judge Stanwood Duval, US District Court,[7] but the federal agency could not be held financially liable due to sovereign immunity in the Flood Control Act of 1928. There was also an investigation of the responses from federal, state and local governments, resulting in the resignation of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown, and of New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Superintendent Eddie Compass.

Several agencies including the United States Coast Guard (USCG), National Hurricane Center (NHC), and National Weather Service (NWS) were commended for their actions. They provided accurate forecasts with sufficient lead time.[8]

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#cite_note-TPInteractive-4

I feel gloomy

Today is little cold, I go to coplay to change the size of my clothes.
After I go out of the subway station, I see two persons, whose clothes are dirty, standing on the street with a cardboard.

At first time, I don't care because I'm hurry to change the clothes. But when I come back, I find they are still there. Then I see what said on the cardboard.
I find some information about them:
They are father and son;
They are homeless now;
They need help.
Those are also my reasons to help them. When I go closely, I find no one pay attention to them, although there are many people around the street. When I see their eyes, I can find sadness. I give the father $20 that I have in my pocket, and I hope that may help them.

On my way home, I'm still think about the "Thank you" he told me. I have a question about "why people don't help them?" Because they may not be the real homeless people? If they are the real ones, what's the future of them and what can we do for the homeless people?
I need an exact answer.

I have a dream.

I have a dream that relatives in our country can get together, and they can not be separated by others. They can live happily without being worried.

I have a dream that everyone can make a contribution to others as a volunteer. They can donate to help each other without protest.

I have a dream that one day the green can be found everywhere in China. Children can play on the grass, and people never worry about the water and food. Every child can grow up healthily.

I have a dream that our technology can be developed fast and better. In this way, all the disabled person and badly sick people can have a normal, but beatific life.

I have a dream that one day the war will disappeared on the world. Everyone can make friends with each other with sincere smile. They can create a beautiful future.

This is our hope and this is our belief that can make me walk on the road of life to see all the things happening.

With this belief, I'm firmly convinced that it can be come true in the future. At that time, there is no difference among the people. There is no war between the countries. There is no harm on the world any more. The man just have the happiness around them and forever.

Let the persuasion go over the sea.

Let the belief pass through the earth.

Let the faith spread across all over the world.