According
to recent 2000 statistics, there are at this moment over 1.13 billion smokers
worldwide, among
whom 3.5 million die of lung cancer every year. The fact is that we dont
appreciate just how
dangerous smoking is. Despite the serious damage caused by smoking, the
ironical situations continued
that many people cannot quit easily. I was concerned by this situation, and
got the inspiration for
Have a Smoke from a chance encounter with a middle-aged man who
was suffering from terminal lung
cancer. In this work I cynically represented smoking as exaggerated sex
in the form of kinetic sculpture. Also,
this piece utilizes an infrared sensor so that it operates automatically whenever
a viewer approaches. It
was devised to imitate human motions through a system of dynamic mechanisms
using a single motor.
(c) copyright 1996-2006 Byeong Sam Jeon. All rights reserved.
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