Kim Joon

The Art of Kim Joon.

[…] Kim Joon’s computer graphics are somewhere in between painting and photography and the resulting digital humanoids are painted with brand logos such as Gucci, Armani, Budweiser, and BMS.  To Kim, tattoos are a metaphor for one’s hidden desire and hard-to-control obsessions and through tattoo, he started to see the people and the world.  To him, tattoos represent the mental awareness that liberates the individual’s or the organization’s oppressed desire; the skin is simply the canvas and the tattoo becomes the individual’s cultural expression. […]